BELGIAN MISSION

Evening Star, Issue 21746, 14 June 1934, Page 9

BELGIAN MISSION

VISIT TO LONDON ANNOUNCEMENT OF KING LEOPOLD’S ACCESSION. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, Juno 12. Tho members of a special-mission to announce the accession of King Leopold of Belgium, headed by the Due d’Ursel, have arrived in London. The special envoy _ will be received by tho King at Buckingham Palace tomorrow. In the afternoon he will lay a wreath on tho Cenotaph. On Thursday the members of the mission will be entertained at luncheon by their Majesties, and will- bo the guests of the Government at a dinner in their honour at the Foreign Office. On Friday evening tho mission will give a dinner at the Hyde Park Hotel, and will depart for Belgium on Friday. RECEIVED BY KING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Juno 13. (Received Juno 14, at noon.) The semi-state landau from the Royal stable, with the footmen dressed in scarlet, conveyed to Buckingham Palace the Due D’Ursel and other members of the Belgian mission, who came to England formally to inform the King of the accession of King Leopold 111. They were received by the King in the State apartments. His Majesty, in replying, referred to the profound sorrow which ho and his family and the people sensed at the untimely death of King Albert. “ His loftiness of character and steadfastness of purpose in peace and war alike will be held in lasting admiration and reverent memory in tho countries of the British Empire no less than in the land for whoso liberties he so valiantly strove. It is my earnest prayer that the proud recollection of Albert’s achievements may facilitate the task of his illustrious son to whom the sceptre has now passed, and that under His Majesty King Leopold 111. the Belgian nation may enjoy complete’ tranquility and increasing prosperity,” ho said.