KING EDWARD'S CRUISE
ARRIVAL IN ISTANBUL PEOPLE'S WARM WELCOME (Received September 6, 6.35 p.m.) ISTANBUL, Sept. 5 King Edward arrived at Istanbul yesterday morning. The entire personnel of the Turkish Fleet, standing to attention, welcomed His Majesty while the guns of the fortresses thundered a salute.
The President, Kamal Ataturk, accompanied by his Ministers and the British Ambassador, Sir Percy Lorraine, received His Majesty. Thousands of people lined the streets cheering. The King, accompanied by Kamal Ataturk, drove to the British Embassy through crowded streets, smiling and waving his yachtsman's cap in response to shouts of "Yasha," meaning, "Long may you live." At night, from the deck of the Nahlin, the King witnessed a brilliant Venetian carnival in the bay. Mosques and minarets glittered and there were dazzling lights everywhere. It ia declared that the King's visit marks' the reinforcement of friendship j between Britain and Turkey.
On visiting the Topkapo Palace later the King was shown the harems and th 6 treasuries of the ex-Sultans. His Majesty to-day visited the mosques of St, Sophia and the Sultan Ahmed. He bought goods in the grand bazaar and received a gold-bound album df views.
HOMEWARD JOURNEY OUTLINE OF ARRANGEMENTS British Wireless RUGBY, Sept. 4 According to present arrangements the King will leave Istanbul on his homeward journey probably on Monday, travelling in a private train, which the President, Kamal Ataturk, has placed at his disposal, as far as Vienna. His Majesty probably will stay in Vienna for two or three days. The final stage of the King's journev to England may be made by air. MESSAGE TO ANZACS GLORIOUS ASSOCIATIONS [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Sunday His Excellency the Governor-General, Viscount Galway, has received the following message from His Majesty the King: Having spent the day (September 3), in visiting the battlefields and cemeteries of the Gallipoli Peninsula, with which the name of Anzae will be forever gloriously associated, I send my best wishes to the surviving members of that fine corps, with the assurance that the last resting places of their fallen comrades are well and reverently cared for.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22517, 7 September 1936, Page 9
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