BATTLEFIELD TOUR
PRINCE’S VISIT OLD MEMORIES RECALLED (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Australian" and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 2. (Received May 3 7.10 p.m.) The Prince of Wales, after a day on the Somme, arrived at Amiens dust-covered, wearing a black and white check cap, and grey suit. He laid a wreath on a memorial at'Vimy Ridge, and during the long tour went to almost every British cemetery and visited a field near St. Jean where he was nearly blown up during the war. He went to the simple peasant dwelling where he had been billeted.
Vice-Admiral Sir I/ionel Halsey said that this tour of the Prince was the most interesting he had ever made. After a rest the Prince went for a walk in the Amiens streets, pausing outside the Cathedral in which there were memorials to Australian. American, Newfoundland, Canadian and British troops, a-> if remembering the days of 1918, when the faint-hearted feared that Amiens could not be saved. PRINCE IN WAR ZONE. BRUSSELS, May 1. The Prince of Wales is visiting and carefully examining various points on the battlefields, including Hyde Park Corner and Passchendaele. The ground in many places is still littered with great piles of unexploded shells, helmets and rusty barbed wire.
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Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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208BATTLEFIELD TOUR Southland Times, Issue 18931, 3 May 1923, Page 5
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