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Show HUN PRINCE IS IN TOUCH LUCK London, Jan. 3. The suite of his royal highness, Jagatjit Singh, Maharajah Maha-rajah of Kapurthala, were passengers on the steamship Persia, which has been sunk on its way to Bombay. A dispatch from Carlo states that the maharajah's famous jewels, worth $4,-000,000, $4,-000,000, were lost with the ship, 'but gives no further indication of the fate of the members of his party. With the maharajah's party when he arrived in England from New York, in August last, was Miss Margaret Cullen, a young American woman whom the Indian prince and princess had met in a western city and induced to accompany them to India, The maharajah was waiting at Port Said to join the ship and continue his journey to India, accompanied by his suite. It is assumed that his wife, who was formerly Anita Delgado, a Spanish dancing girl, was waiting with him at Port Said and that Miss Cullen was with them. His royal highness is having an exciting ex-citing trip back to India. When he sailed from New York on the steamship steam-ship Rotterdam last August, the greatest great-est secrecy was observed, and not until un-til the Rotterdam arrived at Falmouth was it made known that he was on board. He feared that on account nf his great wealth and the aid which he had lent to the English cause the Germans would make a special effort ef-fort to capture him or sink his ship. A British cruiser met the Rotterdam off Falmouth and convoyed it through the mine field. Salt Lake, Jan. 4. The Maharajah of Kapurthala, accompanied by the maharanec and an entourage, was in Salt Lake twice last summer and stopped at the Hotel Utah. Upon the occasion of his first visit here he reported re-ported the theft of a strong box which he claimed contained ?450,000 in credits. Carl Von Araim was arrested arrest-ed in connection with the theft and later returned the strong box and its contents to the maharajah. It was found to have contained only a few hundred dollars, some papers and pictures. |