The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-07
DREAM over
FATIMA HAS
MOVE ORDER
Princess and Sons to Be
Returned Home by
Great Britain.
(Special to The Argus.)

3
New York, March Her dream
of an American paradise ended,
princess Fatima is going home.
The mystery" Of her visit was
cleared today, while the man who
introduced her to President Har-
ding languished in a Brooklyn
Jail.
America has been reluctant to
deport Fatima. So the British gov
ernment is helping her make a
graceful though dismal exit. She
sails for India Friday, disappointed,
disillusioned, and deceived. From
the splendor of a White house re-
ception and special audiences with
Sthe president and Secretary
Hughes to the squalor of East Side
poverty, the princess has gone in
the short space of a few months.
First her claim to royalty was
disputed. The United States gov
eminent looked that up and found
that she was neither a part of
movie stunt nor a bogus princess.
The story, disclosed now for the
s,frst time, shows she came from
Afghanistan with the curious ex-
pectation of a grant of land from
President Harding to make a home
for her three sons. How she hoped
TO sell a big diamond for $350,000,
how she fell into the hands of i'm
posters and finally became Il
charge upon the community, de-
pendent upon charity, is one OF the
d-a1 io Of hn
Two governments, Great Britain
and the United States, have to take
a hand. The last chapter in the
spectacular career of the princess
came to light today with the max
ing of arrangements for her invoi-
untary departure on Saturday.
Fatima, "Sultaness of Kabul,
landed in New York eight months
ago arrayed in Oriental splendOr.
When she sails tie three princely
sons go with her, but the family
jewels and a good part of the royal
4 wardrobe will remain behind to be
4 squabbled over by a lot of disap-
pointed creditors including the
managers of some of New York's
most fashionable stores and hotels
NHO BIduly DIT Ill ST OpeHSu LucfI
doors to the dark princess with the
sapphire studded nose. In all her
1icissitudes of the last few months,
Fatima has never once thought of
parting with the blue gem that
adOrnS her large right nostril-the
gem that gave Broadway and Fifth
avenue a real thrill last summer.
1t was a painfully short journey
for the swarthy "Sultana" from her
brief half hour of glory at the
White house in Washington to the
shabbiest Of rooms in New York 5
teeming East Side. The Salvation
army cared for her for a time last
November. and then the Travellers
4 Aid society took up the charitable
task.
: AT last, however, the British gov
= ernment was consulted and the in
umation was broadly given both
here and in Washington that mas
much as Afghanistan was a British
protectorate, making Fatima a sort
OF British subject. it was the duty
OF Britain once more to take up
NE white mans burden and care
ior the stranded F'atima until such
Time as it would be entirely con-
Venient' for the British govern
ment to see that she set sail for
india, whence she came. So dur
ing the latter part of her stay in
new York she has been the guest
OF Great Britain" The British
eonsolate here has supplied her
WIN funds and she is living her
laSt days in America in a rather
oomfortable two room and bath
spartment in a Lexington avenue
ooarding house.
IA Sad HOmegOing.
A Princess Fatima's homegoing is
% De very sad one. She has