ROYAL TOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18447, 7 January 1922, Page 7

ROYAL TOUR

THE PEINCE AT MANDALAY. HEARTY AND LOYAL WELCOME. . v 1 l PICTURESQUE SCENES. Pices ' Association—By Telegraph.—Copyright. DELHI, January 5. The Prince of Wales has arrived at Mandalay; He received a most hearty and loyal welcomp. The road to Mandalay proved a pleasant road through a friendly country t with smiling faces everywhere, showing that the poison of Indian sedition and political unrest had not touched the heart of Burma. The long, dusty journey was performed in a light, almost toylike, narrow gauge train, which swayed .and jolted like a ship in a heavy sea. Every station was artistically decorated. Crowds of , country people in picturesque holiday dress cheered and showed genuine enthu% siasm. Each station was like a section of a rainbow enclosed in a framework. Burmese Boy Scouts with flags, ladies carefully powdered, coiffured, and bejewelled, arid smoking heavy cigars, were 1 much in evidence. None of the Prince’s journeys had a greater interest or revealed more sincere enthusiasm. Mandalay itself was gaily decorated, and the Prince was welcomed by a gathering of notables, including leading chiefs and ladies gorgeously and fantastically costumed, many of whom had travelled hundreds of miles to participate in the welcome and to show their loyalty to the Empire. The Prince will return to Rangoon on Saturday.—-A. and ,N-Z. Cable.