HAUSAS' WELCOME

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18362, 21 April 1925, Page 9

HAUSAS' WELCOME

PRINCE IN NIGERIA.

A THRILLING SPECTACLE,

(BT CA.BLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - —CQPTRIGHT.) (ACSTBALIAN AND Z.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, April 19

A telegram from Kano (Nigera) says that crowds swarmed into Kano all night long. The scenes during the morning were amazing. Streams of plodding visitors were visible on all the roads for miles, resembling converging armies of ants.

The Emirs harl already congregated for the Durbar; most of them had travelled hundreds of miles accompanied by hosts of retainers, many of whom died from the intense heat, disease and junglo accidents en route to the Durbar.

At eight in the morning there was a wonderful cavalry display. It was a caso of horses everywhere. Twenty thousand were ranged in horse-shoe formation, all flaunting tho gayest colours. Tho commotion was hushed on tho arrival of the Prince of Wales, complete silence being tho Hausa token of respect.

Then the band of the Nigerian regiment crashed into a stirring inarch, followed by the rolling of hundreds of native drums.

The Prince, seated on a dais covered with a multi-coloured canopy captured in fighting seventy years ago, watched tho parade of infantry and artillery. Then tho Emirs and troopers charged with lances and swords drawn, halting spectacularly two feet from the dias. The Prince ol Wales left Kano this morning en route for Lagos. His first destination is Ibadan.

Tlio intense heat slightly affected somo members of the Prince's staff, though in no way seriously.