GREAT ROYAL WEDDING

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 4538, 23 May 1913, Page 5

GREAT ROYAL WEDDING

AN ENTHUSIASTIC POPULACE. Electric Telegraph—Press Association Copyright. Berlin, Last Night. There was brilliant sunshine and Unterderlinden was thronged, every coign of vantage being occupied. The Union Jack was everywhere in evidence, and liawkers plied a roaring trade selling paper English flags, which have rarely been seen in Berlin in tho past few years. Picked Prussian Troops lined The route. A vivid picture was presented within tho station, where the Kaiser, in tho uniform of a British dragoon, accompanied by Prince Ernest anil Princess Victoria, warmly grouted King George, v.ho wore tho uniform of the Prussian dragoons. The royal train was escorted for forty miles by tho airship Hansa. As the royalties emerged from the station a roar of acclamation went up from the throats of the waiting crowds. King George's carriage was escorted by his regiment of dragoons, and he and the Queen were demonstratively cheered. It*is *emi-offieially stated that tho Kaiser’s principal gift will he the proclamation of Prince Ernest as tho nov.- ruler of the Duchy of Brunswick. (Received this day at 12.15 p.m.) .Berlin, This Day. The newspapers rejomee in the relation strain between England and Germany, and are hopeful that King George’s visit will prevent a relapse into the hitter antagonism of the. earlier days of his reign. Extraordinary precautions are being taken in connection with the Czar’s visit. ’Hie whole length of the railway is guarded by the military, and ail roads loading to the railway are closely guarded by gendarmes. A huge staff of Russian secret police in oerv/rn ponying the Czar.