THE KING & QUEEN

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 195, 15 May 1922, Page 5

THE KING & QUEEN

IN BELGIUM AND FRANCE FAMOUS SPOTS VISITED BY TELEGBAPH.—PBESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHT. x Brussels, May 11. King* George, accompanied by Earl Haig, visited the, Zeebrugge cemetery, where massed children sang the National Anthem. Later they visited wrecked warships which are still lying in port, also the famous mole. The King afterwards visited the Zonnebecke cemeteries and then proceeded to France. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, May 13. When touring tho Ypre.s battlefields the King stopped for. some time at the grave or tho Australian, Sergeant McGee, a posthumous V.C. He reached Arras on Friday, and motored to Notre Dame De Lorette plateau, where a hundred thousand Frenchmen fell in a battle lasting a, year, and a memorial with a lighted lantern is to keep perpetual vigil. Tho King met Marshal Foch there and visited several cemeteries, depositing wreaths of red laurels. He also visited Vimy Ridge, which the Canadians captured, ajid met the Canadian High Commissioner and Mr. Rudyard Kipling.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REMARKABLE SCENE (Rec. May 14, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 13. While at Loretta tho King listened eagerly to Marshal Foch and Earl Haig describing various famous points, explaining details of the stupendous battle. He turned to them once, confidently saying in French: “Always good friends, is it not sof” To which Marshal Foch replied with fervour: “Always, always—for the same things and the same reasons.” He grasped Earl Haig’s hand, and as the two Marshals held hands in the grip of comradeship tho King placed his hand over theirs. Tho scene was worthy of record by a great painter. On a hillside scarred with graves, overlooking devastated France, the British King sealing the comradeship of the two great war leaders and a historic scene.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. A TOUCHING INCIDENT (Rec. May 14, 11.5 p.m.) ’ London, May 13. The King’s visit to tho Etaples ceme-. tery ( where there are ten thousand British graves, was marked by a touching incident. A letter from anJEnglish woman was handed to the King, in which the writer begged the Queen to place a few forget-me-nots on tho grave of her son. The King, in the absence of tho Queen, reverently bore the flowers to the graveside, knelt down, and placed them at the foot of the tomb, and gave instructions that tho flowers be specially tended and left undisturbed. The King was received at the entrance of the cemetery by Sir Allen Hogben and others.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KING’S MESSAGE TO THE BEREAVED (Roc. May 14, 11.5 p.m.) London, May 13. The King and Queen visited Terlincthun cemetery, and concluded tho tour of the battlefields. The King delivered an oration, including a. message to the war bore lived. “For the past few days I have been leaking a solemn pilgrimage in hononur of the people who died for all free men. I should like to send a message to all who lost those dear to them in the groat war. In this tho Queen joins me, amid surroundings so wonderfully typical of that single-heart-ed assembly of nations and races, forming our Empire, for hero in their last quarters'lie sons of every portion of that Empire, across, as it were, the threshold of the mother island which they guarded, that freedom might be saved in the uttermost ends oft the earth. A generation of our manhood offered itself without question, almost without need, .in answer to the summons. We may truly sav the. whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WELCOMED BACK TO LONDON. (Rcc. May 14, 11.5 p.m.) London, May 13.The King and Queen have returned to London. They were enthusiastically welcomed by crowds during the drive to Buckingham Palace.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.