New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-11
PRINCE A COWARD
Scion of a Reigning House
Shows the White Feather.

Copyright, 1912, by the Brentwood Company
Prince AZiz Hassan, of Egypt, enjoys
the distinction Of being the first scion OF
reigning house, at any rate i'm modern
times to have shown the white feather on
the battlefield and to be placed under
close arrest-perhaps by this time he has
been shot at Constantinople-for coward
ice in the face Of the enemy. For by his
conduct at Kirk-Kilisseh he precipitated
the Turkish rout. was captured by high
Turkish officers at a considerable distance
from the scene of action when in full
flight, and was brought by them back TO
Constantinople, where he was closely i'm
prisoned, with a view to his being brought
before a court martial
That a man with his military record
should have been intrusted by the Otto.
man authorities with the command Of the
cavalry i'm the battle of Kirk-Kilisseh
seems wellnigh incredible, more especially
when il is recalled that his father, the
late Prince Hassan, OF Egypt, younger
brother OF Khedive Tewik. was uniformly
defeated during the Turkish war against
the Balkan States and Russia in 1851,
during which he figured at the head Of
mixed Egyptian and Turkish division.
Prince Aziz, who is first cousin Of the
Khedive, received his military training In
the LIST Regiment Of Dragon Guards, At
Berlin. He did not succeed in making
friends with his comrades, owing to his
morose and arrogant disposition, and ulti-
mately became involved in all sorts of
queer financial scrapes, which eliminated
I'm his taking TO flight in order to escape
the consequences. Emperor William was
so angry that ne took no steps 10 prevent
the publication in THE official Gazette
Of an announcement TO the effect that the
prince was an absconding debtor and
deserter Warrants We're issued for his
arrest and not long afterward a noufca-
ton appeared TO the effect that his con-
necton with the German army had been
severed.
Subsequently his mother effected A set
Element with his creditors and started
him Off afresh with a clean bill of health.
Returning to Cairo, he became involved in
a squabble with one Of his brothers-in-
law. Prince Fuad Pacha, which ended in
a shooting ARRAY at the Khedivial Club.
in which he was slightly wounded By
Fuad displaying but little courage in de
Tending himself. Then he secured permits
sion 70 join the eth Hussars of the Eng
lsh army at Bombay and served with
them until they got tired Of his compan
ionship and succeeded I'm getting rid OF
him. lie afterward went through the
war I'm Manchuria attached to Russian
regiment. but without distinguishing
himself and on his return, finding the
atmosphere Of Cairo uncouSenial, he set
tied down at ConstantinOple, where he en-
deavored to promote horseracing, and
eventually succeeded in obtaining a COM
mission as cavalry general
The unfortunate record made by Prince
Azlz in the recent battle Of Kirk. KilisseH
will stir memories i'm the breasts Of certain
gallant American veterans Of the civil War
in this country, who on it's conclusion ell
tered the military service Of kheIEe
Ismail, and who were Oh the stan Of his
father, the late Prince Hassan, when he
was generalissimo Of the Egyptian army
Some Of them We're with him in his dis
astrOus invasion Of Abyssinia, where be
managed TO have his entire force de-
feated and where most of his troops We're
massacred. The native officers were sub
iected TO horrible mutations, though
their lives were spared The American
officers We're let go without any harm
being done TO them. But Prince Hassau
had TO submit TO having a cross branded
on each hand, a supreme indgnity to bn
inflicted by a Christian on a Moslem, ANA
this led TO his never being seen without