CELEBRATING PEACE.
| LONDON'S PREPARATIONS. A. BLAZE OF COLOUR. GREAT INRUSH OF VISITORS. (Received 1.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Preparations for the London peace celebrations are proceeding on a vast scale. The route of the procession is festooned with banners and bunting, and flags fly from every staff throughout London. Public and private buildings are gaily decorated. There is a great inrush of provincial and Continental visitors. Sightseers are already crowding the streets to inspect the decorations. Marshal Foch, General Weygand and twenty Allied generals will arrive tonight. Several Allied contingents, including twelve hundred French under General Debeny, were accorded a rousing reception at Victoria Station. Six American troop trains reached Waterloo, the men having come from the Rhine. Elaborate arrangements have been made for feeding the crowds in marquees and restaurants in the principal parks. All-night trams and tube trains will run on Saturday nightGeneral Monash leads the Australian Corps.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 170, 18 July 1919, Page 5
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