LONDON DECORATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 11

LONDON DECORATIONS

THRONGS.OF SIGHTSEERS

INCREASING NUMBERS OF VISITORS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 4, 10.55 a.m.)

RUGBY, May 3.

The decoration of the streets on the Coronation route is now well advanced, and the buildings are gaily adorned! with flags", banners, and festoons, and the pylons are almost all in position. Despite the absence of buses, the streets were thronged yesterday with sightseers, and warm spring sunshine today again attracted great crowds, particularly to the neighbourhood of Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. Overseas visitors continue to arrive in increasing numbers. The members of the Canadian delegation, headed by the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King, reached London on Saturday. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, in their picturesque uniforms, were given an exceptionally cordial welcome on their arrival. They crossed the Atlantic in the same boat as two of the other Prime Ministers. Mr. A. G. Ogilvie (Tasmania) and Mr. A. A. Dysart (New Brunswick), together with the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, Mr. E. L. Patenaude. and members of the Empire Parliamentary Association.

SOUTH AFRICA'S GOOD WISHES,

General Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, and the other members of the Union delegation, arrived this morning. In an interview General Hertzog said: "South Africa sends her most cordial good wishes to the British people and desires me to convey to them heartiest felicitations on the occasion of their Majesties' Coronation. That occasion is being staged by all nations of the Commonwealth once again to consult one with another on a matter of common interest and benefit. In both these historic events, the Coronation and the Imperial Conference, South Africa desires to play her. part in a spirit of sincere co-operation, good will, and friendship. <