Count of Turin makes contact

September 30, 1907

The Count of Turin, a cousin of the King of Italy, has made contact with his family, after months of being incommunicado. Prince Victor, a brother to the Dukes of Aosta and Abruzzi, is now in the African interior, according to the Marquise de Fontenoy's latest column. He has not "encountered Theodore Roosevelt in his travels," and he has set up his headquarters at Basako, in the eastern province of the Belgian Congo. He has been traveling "extensively in the most remote possessions of England and Germany in the center of Africa, beyond the reach of civilization." The news of his whereabouts is the first communication from the prince in some months.