KING EDWARD AT BERLIN.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12508, 8 April 1909, Page 1

KING EDWARD AT BERLIN.

A contemporary writes regardinj his Majesty's visit to Berlin :— Kins £dward looked well, uniformed as t .Prussian dragoon, and steadily meet mg the concentrated stare of thepeopli m fi a s . milln g countenance which com peUed them to accept him as well mean ing and genial, and to forgive the lout postponement of his visit. The form ahties of the occasion were arrangec with clockhke precision. The cum went off, the bands played, and th< soldiers cheered to time, beginning and stopping at the proper moment Ail the details were carried out with AiL u rf ]G i. rm f n +Ithorou1 thorou e hness -Q^ei, Alexandra took the fancy of Berliners +L?? \ an \ the y °P enlv expressed their astonishment at -her youthful appearance. Among those who awaitv i ere the Emperor's six sons. They stood in a -row, rigidly impassive in raised to the salute. Her Maiestv their stiff formality by kissing them in th« n i i VISIt il rs . should understand the popular enthusiasm to be intenTfed ■ for themselves. alone. The Berlin newspapers d!d not grow very enthusiastic over the visit, but one of them went the length of ' staWtiiat -Germany could not seriously think of keeping apace with Britain in nava armaments, and others predicted an improvement in the relations between tne two countries.