TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN-MOTHER
A UNIQUE CELEBRATION. TEN MILLION ROSES SOLD. [TJ-NTITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT] LONDON, June 26. A unique celebration marked tlie fiftieth anniversary of Queen Alexandra’s landing in England. Ten thousand ladies, including leading members of society and Australians, sold in the streets of London ten million artificial wild roses, her Majesty's favorite flower, made by cripples, for the benefit of hospitals. Queen Alexandra, in an open carnage, made a general tour tlirough the streets. Queen Alexandra was enthusiastically welcomed in tlie crowded streets. Mrs Asquith was selling roses atWhitehall, Mrs Lloyd George on tlie embankment and. Lady Reid w flS amongst the wives of Australian Kniglits Bachelor. Roses were sold for a guinea a-piece at tlie Stock Exchange. ... r During the celebration in. honor ot .Queen Alexandra, Eleen Craig, a welldressed 1 Londoner, il>roke tlirou§h n cordon of police and sprang on Mi McKenna, Minister in attendanceShe also appealed to the Queen on behalf of the suffragettes. She was arrested after a fierce struggle with detectives. Twenty-three hunger strikers are now released.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3561, 28 June 1912, Page 5
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