KINGS AND RULERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 22, 27 January 1936, Page 7

KINGS AND RULERS.

) : r</i Foreign Dignitaries Arrive for Funeral. MANY NATIONS REPRESENTED. (Received 2 p.m.> ' LONDON, January 26. Foreign Royalties who arrived yesterday noticed that London had already arrayed herself in mourning garb. Tall Venetian masts, silver-tipped and bound in purple, with heavy black corded crepe . stretching between them, are being erected en route. Blacx-painted hoardings protect shop windows. Special window seats are realising £25, but 10,000 cheap seats will be provided for the public. There will be rows of chairs along the Mall available for 6d to the first arrivals. All shop windows not boarded up will be transformed into shrines with suitable adornments. Early arrivals were Prince Paul of Yugoslavia and' King Boris of Bulgaria, whom the Duke of Kent and the Duke of Gloucester, met at Victoria Station. M. Maisky, Soviet Ambassador, met M. Litvinoff, who will represent Russia. The Italian Crown Prince and admirals, the King of the Belgians, Prince Felix of Luxembourg, King Carol of Rumania, Princes Frederick of Prussia, and Ernst Augustus of Hanover, Baron von Neurath, German Foreign Minister, and King Christian of Denmark will arrive on Monday. Passengers from the Continent have greatly swelled air -traffic, and included the Duke of Hesse and Baron Mallen- ' heim, Finland. The majority of the Royal personages will stay at Bucking--*-N ham Palace. X The Admiralty is arranging for a destroyer escort to meet all visitors and heads of State to 1 England to attend the funeral. H.M.b. Montrose and two destroyers will take over the. escort in mid-Channel fro™ French destroyers escorting the President of the French Republic, M. Lebrun, who is leaving Calais at noon on Monday. WOMEN'S DRESS. FASHIONS CONFERENCE. (Received 9.30 a.m.) 1 LONDON, January 20. j A fashions conference which was , hastily summoned decided that women ] did not desire bright colours soon after the funeral. It was agreed that the - feature for springtime should be loyal ] purple, silver grey, amethyst, P lum > < soft browns, dark blues and black and ] white. NATIONAL MEMORIAL. ! AUSTRALIAN PROPOSAL. < CANBERRA, January 20. ( The Federal Cabinet has come to the £ unanimous decision that a 3 national memorial to the late Kin 0 ■, George shall be erected in Australia, j The State Premiers are to be consulted £ regarding the form it shall take. Memorial services for the late King George were held in all the cll " r^® s s throughout the Commonwealth to-day. 0 In consequence of the cancellation of o the request for the observance of , Tuesday as a close holiday, offices, shops, business houses and hotels will t! remain open as usual. A two minutes a silence as a demonstration of national 0 sorrow will be observed at noon. »