THE PRINCE OF WALES

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10719, 13 October 1920, Page 4

THE PRINCE OF WALES

A great reception in London, very fitly ends the Dominions tour of the Prince of Wales. The heartiness of the great crowds, both at the port of arrival and tho capital, completes the link forged by tho popular young Prince which binds together the peoples of the Empire. It is as if the British public, having heard much of the grand work of tho "new Ambassador," as ho has been freely called, has taken the first opportunity of endorsing these statcments. Tho effect is that the HeirApparent, arriving at IfR home, finds, on looking at tho crowds and the old familiar places, that he is really not more at home than he was in all the parts ho visited of his father's Empire. The same cordiality, the samo affection, the same admiration, the' samo respect—all these -are his in tho Old Country, as they wero in the new lands which so amazed and delighted him. On reading of the London reception,- one feels that those tumultuous, loyal people, while shouting their version of good and faithful servant to the young man, were thinking of tho statoment of ono of our Ministers, duly reported in the British Press: "He could win any seat ho liked in New Zealand if there wero a general election to-morrow." That was the sentiment everywhere overseas, and it found its echo it} the London streets. That tho Press "did him well" on his return, wo gather from tho report of his arrival, which mentions tho numerous pictures in the illustrated papers, and the many descriptions of his treatment overseas,* with incidental anecdotes. But this had been going on for some time, as wo may judgo from the "Daily News" issue of August 12th last, which publishes a picture of the Prince's train pfter the wreck—a very effective presentment of the wreck, the carriages lying on their sides, with people clambering out of the windows, and in an inset the Prince, in tweed suit and cap, just as he had himself climbed out into safety. Tho British people were not allowed to forgot the Prince in his absence, and when he camo back they know all about him, and gave him a welcome all the warmer. In one respect they took warning by some of the incidents of his travel. For instance, great caro was taken to keep tho crowd away, from tho landing-place at Portsmouth, evidently with the determination that thero should bo no repetition of the great rough-and-tumble which marked tho landing at St. Kilda, in Hobson's Bay. On that occasion thero were fears that the young man was going to bo dangerously overworked. But ho has arrived safe and well, and these things are harmless niemorjea.