LONDON'S GREETING

Evening Post, Volume C, Issue 89, 12 October 1920, Page 7

LONDON'S GREETING

A ROYAL GATHERING- AT

VICTORIA,

'(Received October 12, 10 a.m.) • - LONDON, 11th October. London prepared a Tousing reception for the Prince The streets were unofficially decorated, and people offered high prices for windows along the route. The streets were lined by thousands of special constables. All the newspapers published congratulatory leaders, with many pictures of incidents in Australia, and New Zealand.

Victoria Station was gaily beflagged, and a. distinguished assemblage was admitted to the platform, including the 1 Duke of Connaught, Prince Arthur, Mr. Lloyd George, Mr. Bonar Law, and other Cabinet Ministers, Lord Beatty, General Trenchard, the Bishop of London, the Lord Mayor, the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Andrew Fisher, Sir James Allen, and the Agents-General. Queen Alexandra arrived at 12.10, followed five -minute* later by the King, wearing an admiral's uniform, the Queen, Princesses ' Victoria and Mary. As the train steamed :ln to the platform, the Prince of Wales, in a liayal uniform, stood looking from a window, his face flushed with boyish ■excitement at, his home-coming. The King and Queen entered the train, and a few moments later the Prince emerged, and kissed Queen Alexandra, while the band played "God Bless the Prince of Wales." The Prince, followed by his brothers, then shook hands with those on the platform. A little later the assemblage faced the photographers, and iis vhe Royal carriages drew up, Sir Andrew Fisher called for three cheers, which were heartily given. Preceded by outriders in scarlet, the splendid procession moved off, the Prince, in the first carriage, and the King and Queen in the next. A few moments later the cheers from the huge crowd outside marked the opening of a triumphal procession through the principal thoroughfares. London's millions evinced unfeigned delight as the procession traversed the streets en route to ■Buckingham Palace, and there were cheers along T.he whole-route, punctuated with "cooees." The weather was glorious, and reminiscent of a mild Australian summer day.