PRINCE OF WALES

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 17 October 1925, Page 7

PRINCE OF WALES

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LONG TOUR ENDED. REPULSE AT PORTSMOUTH. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 17, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Oct. IG. The Prince of Wales, aboard H.M.S. Repulse, arrived at Portsmouth at noon to-day on his return from South Africa and South America. . The Repulse was escorted by destroyers and flying boats. A slight haze lay over the sea and rain fell in a steady drizzle. All the ships in the harbour were manned and the Repulse was cheered as she proceeded to her berth. —Reuter. BIG RECEPTION PREPARING. LONDON, Oct. 16. London has prepared a great welcome for the Prince of Wales to-day on his return from South Africa and South America. At least 500,000 people will line the two-mile route from Victoria Station to Buckingham Palace. The cheers of the crowd will be broadcasted. _ The Duke of York and Prince Henry will meet the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth. Prince George, Princess Mary, the Premier (Mr Stanley Baldwin), members of the Cabinet, and Dominion representaives will meet him at Victoria Station, which is lavishly decorated. The route is also beflagged and festooned. The Admiralty, in a message to the Prince of Wales, expresses the Navy’s pride in having been entrusted with His Highness’ safety on many voyages. The Admiralty welcomes the Prince home, and congratulates him on the great success of his tour, by which the links binding the various members of the Empire have been strengthened and old and valued South American friendships confirmed and intensified. Reuter’s representative on board the Repulse describes a solemn ceremony, a sequel to an incident at Mardelplata, where the women’s patriotic league sent on board a wreath embedded in. a block of ice, requesting that it be cast in the seas “in remembrance of the brave and true who died deaths of honour and departed in the hope of resurrection and eternal life.” The Prince of Wales to-day carried out the ceremony in the presence of detachments of seamen, marines and the Royal Marine Band. After an impressive service by the chaplain the captain read a passage from the Ecclesiastes. The Prince then briefly recounted the circumstances of the ceremony, and committed the flowers to the deep. Shortly afterwards the troopship Marglen. on its way to India, passed close to the Repulse, and the hundreds of troops cheered.