KING’S JUBILEE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 125, 13 May 1935, Page 9

KING’S JUBILEE

Children’s Celebration

70,000 ON VISIT TO LONDON

Sight of Their Majesties By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright LONDON, May 12. Seventy thousand children labelled with their names, addresses and time of homeward trains swarmed over London accompanied by 4,000 teachers. They were marshalled in Green Park and St. James’s Park, which was reserved for a massed picnic. Later the girls and younger children filled the stands in the Mall and boys crowded the pavements to see Their Majesties’ first Jubilee drive through the city escorted by Life Guards. Tho procession route was packed with cheering crowds. Their Majesties halted at Marylebono Town Hall receiving Mayors and Mayoresses of the Northern Councils. When a banner waa unfurled on a near-by scaffolding bearing the words, “Twenty-five Years of War and Unemployment,” workmen immediately tore it down. TOUR OF THE COUNTRY Duke and Duchess at Edinburgh LONON, May 12. The Duke and Duchess of York visited Edinburgh, where they wero rapturously welcomed. They viewed the pageants and illuminations and the duke addressed 15,000 children, to whom he repeated His Majesty’s broadcast message. The duchess released a freight ol carrier pigeons bearing Scotland’s loyal greetings to the King in London. ENGLAND’S SAILOR KING LONDON, May 12. 'The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Mr David Lloyd George, arrived at beflagged Cardiff to attend the Welsh Jubilee celebrations, including a procession and pageant of Welsh industries. The Prince said that the King had faced greater troubles and anxieties than any other King of England, certainly than any who was not responsible for the trials with which he had to contend. Britain, however, was passing through the tail of the hurricane and would weather the stormy days ahead with the aid of its Sailor King.

ULSTER’S LOYALTY

LONDON, May 12. The Duke of Gloucester arrived at Belfast to receive the freedom of the city and represent the King at the Jubilee celebrations. He travelled in the warship Achilles and was escorted up the Lough by the Ulster Air Forces and bombing planes. Enormous crowds thronged the gaily decorated streets. The Duke, replying to the welcome, said Their Majesties rejoiced in Ulster’s loyalty and affection and added that the outstanding thing keeping the world sane in the past two years bad been the stabilising effect of tho British Empire.