WELCOMES TO PARIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 10

WELCOMES TO PARIS.

FLATTERING RECEPTION TO KING AND QUEEN. PARIS, April 22. At the banquet last night in honor of King George and Queen Mary, President Poincairo proposed the toast of their Majesties. He declared that public opinion on both sides of the Channel joined in this fresh demonstration of confidence in the mutual sympathies of tho governments of the two countries. Their Majesties' visit consummated the friendship which had endured the test of time and experience and undoubtedly the bonds and intimacy were daily drawing closer. The King, in reply, referred to the, intimate, anil cordial relations of $be two countries which permitted their joint labor in the humanitarian work: of civilisation and peace. Tiie present occasion is the first, not only in the history of the French Republic, but also in the longer history/ of the City of Paris, that a British King and Queen have , made a state progress through the streets of the, French capital. Once the late King Ed ward VII. was accompanied by Queen Alexandra when visiting Paris in February, 1907, but on that occasion their Majesties travelled incognito as iiw Duke and Duchess of Lancaster, and stayed at the British Embassy, the visit, lacking all State ceremonial. Paiis indeed has> had but few opportunities of welcoming British sovereigns within her walls^ After the infant Henry "VI. was crowned ■in Paris in 1422, no British, ruler entered the city again until 1855, when Queen "Victoria « accompanied by the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal> was the guest of : Napoleon- IEL King Edward,- a Parisian to the finger tips, was a .fairly frequent visitor, to the,. French capital, both as Prince of Wales and as monarch, and King George and Queen. Mary, when still Prince and Prinr cess of Wales, made a prior joint visit m 1908, but that again, was an incog* hito visit made by "Lord and Lady Killarney" as they returned, to London from Cologne. , Crossing from Dover to. Calais yesterday. the Bang and Qiieen travelled to the Gare Du Nordy where they entered the underground system to . complete their journey to the Bois de Boulogne, where President Poincaire and Madame Poincaire formally welcomed their Royal guests and attended them on the progress around the Arc de Triomphe and througii. the spacious Ghamps. Ely sees to theQuai D'Orsay, wjiere the'splendid apartments of- the' foreign ministry have ; been converted into a temporary Royal residence. The greeting acc.qrded King , George and Queen Mary was a flattering one. The evening newspapers published their welcome to the Royal couple iiv English.