SAMMIES FORMED GUARD OF HONOR.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14610, 21 May 1918, Page 3

SAMMIES FORMED GUARD OF HONOR.

KING AND QUJiIRN TNSPIIICT SOL:: DIERS FEOM U.S. r , LONDON, Apuil 11. +j Americap.j soldiers acted as a guard o£ honor to King . George/ and Queeji Mtwysj on Monday whea>; their \Majesties.inspe.ct->, ed certain, famous works (where thou T sands of hands are employed! day andi night. Their Majesties conversed freely^ with officers and men and commented pri. the smai't and-^plliierTllke appearance of. the Americans. »""■"' Queeni Mary, responding to a request for an, autograph, used a worgeaiit'w back as a writing pad while she wrote "Mary, R., 1918." . TJie^ King, also added Jjis autograph. , .flTje^King, Speaking to several Americans Sfith whom he and the, Queeu coniveraed, . said : "I am very glad indeed to see American! soldiers m Bng* I4nd, and a^fine stamp of omen they tyre., When I was m; France not long ago I liad the opportunity - pf seeing troops from the Untted ■States. 'I'Shey impress, ed mo veiy much with their excelleiit bearing, and I r>vaa toW they' are becpin-c mg 1 . efficient very rapidly."' BOMB THAT^^ROKE LOOSE." AMSTERDAM, March 20. ' The Germans have' Vexp^fcssed "deep regret" to the Dutch Government at the falling of a bomb from, a German aeroplane m. Dutch territorial waters when a British convoy a.rrived on February 27. The bomb, it is added; broke loose from the aeroplane.