PRINCE OF WALES

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14610, 8 March 1922, Page 5

PRINCE OF WALES

VISIT TO INDIA. AIT UNEXPECTED AFFRONT. i'ri-.cs Association Electric Telegraph—Cop.vngh DELHI, Monday. The native city of Peshawar offered the Prince of Wales an unexpected affront by putting up the shutters during the State drive through the main streets to receive the provincial ad? dress. The hartal is more surprising because' the city pursued its wonted life on the day of rhe Prince's arrival and watched with keen interest the preparations for decorating the squares and bazaars.

This was the first time the Prince had driven through the heart of any purely native quarter. Hitherto he had merely skirted the fringe. The authorities did not 'anticipate trouble of any kind. Political agitators have been busy, particularly those working on behalf of the Caliphate organisation, but no effect was perceptible until yesterday, when the campaign of intimidation began to yield ■ results, and merchants were warned that their shops would be burned if they opened to-day. Wild stories of a general rising were in circulation. The police promptly arrested a few leading agitators, whereupon the majority of shops were closed, and not one was open when the Prince drove through the streets with native infantry and British troops, the latter being stationed at the end of the route. The natives did not hide themselves behind the shutters, but simply locked the doors and put up heavy wooden hoardings as a sign of mourning and sat on balconies or roofs and watched the procession. There were a few cheers raised in the square, chiefly by children, but the great majority of Indians gazed on the proceedings in silence. After receiving the address the Prince returned to Government House by a different route. There was no disorder of any kind.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.