The Cordova daily times., 1917-09-19
WAR MAKES MAN OF PRINCE IF
 WALES

LONDON, Sept 18. -- If kings had to be elected, there Is one private i'm the British army who would put his cross in the circle opposite the name of Edward the Eighth, the present Prince of Wales. Young Edward won his vote in the second battle of Loos. The private is runner attached to a
 Surrey regiment, who was coming back from an early morning attack with news of how the fighting was going. He was still in the zone where shells were dropping with bothereome frequency. and was hustling to get out Of 1t. He saw approaching a young man picking his way leisurely among the shell holes and hilIocks.
 What the h--l are you doing out here?" he demanded of the stranger. None of your business" was the cheerful response, as emphatically pro- fane as his own greeting. Coming nearer the private saw he had been "cussing" an officer second lieu. tenant. Nearer still and he recognized the grinning countenance of the next king of England.
 He sought to apologize, but the prince insisted on regarding the mat ter as merely one of the humorous in- cidents of very interesting war. sug- gesting in so many words, that the private forget it." Stories about the prince are not hard to find, among the privates on leave. These privates were the last to accept the prince as a real soldier. He had to stand an even more grilling course of obserya- tion by the Tommies than other off. cers undergo which any officer knows is sufficient
 When the prince first went 10 France jealous generals, fearful O. anything happening to the thrones heir while in their zone, did endeayor to keep him away from the danger spots. Intensely sensitive of his pro minence, the prince began taking un. necessary risks when chance offered The only way to stop him was to al. low him to take his chances with his comrades in the ordinary risks of duty The result was that In the streets of Ypres. in innumerable "sui. l eide corners and machine. gun yal | leys,' dead mems holes" and other unhealthy spots the prince has won the complete approval of the men.
 Saw him bowling across Eleven | O'Clock square just before Fritz was | due to open up," said one. Eleven O'Clock square Is we'll known place in much shelled town whene a Ger man 5.9 stopped the public clock at the hour of eleven. An engineer. not knowing him, said better top it, son. n.y. the bands just starting" Crump, comes an eight-incher right into the square, but he only laughs and ducks into a doorway.
 hSAAP't thN olOi VIII w e | was being posted something cruel by -hem big minnies (trench mortars) when a little feller crawled round the corner of our trench. He was as firty as a sapper. but I recognized 1im. It was the prince. He's huntin' .or the major, he says, and when I points out the majors dugout he goes 'n as coolly as an A. S. c. driver at a 'ation dump"
 Life in the field. officers say, has lone wonders for the Prince. He is IS hard as nails, and from shy. hyper sensitive youth, oppressed by the ,ares of rank knowledge of what was of his position, he has de- 'eloped into cheery. fearless young nan, who has proved his right to ( ningle with the brave on enuat tarma