AFGHAN KING
ARRIVAL IN PARIS WARM FRENCH RECEPTION BRILLIANT PROCESSION THROUGH STREETS (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. 8.35 p.m.) Paris. January 25. The King and Queen of Afghanistan arrived and were greeted at the station by a smiling President, the booming of guns, and the Afghan National Anthem. The King made a handsome figure in the gorgeous red, gold and silver uniform of an Afghan general with a white egret plume in his cap. The Queen, who anywhere would pass for a European, was wearing a smart hat of brown velour and a fur coat. There was a touching scene when Prince Hedayatullah, aged 16A years, who is studying in Paris, greeted his parents whom he had not seen for two years. Then began an imposing, colourful procession along the Champs Elysees through the Place de la Concorde to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where the Royal party are the guests of France, King Amanullah using the bed on which Napoleon slept and the writing table that was used by Gambetta. King Amanullah’s arrival in Louden is fixed for March 14.—A. and N.Z.
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Southland Times, Issue 20396, 27 January 1928, Page 7
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