FROM LONDON TO GOLD COAST

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 99, 13 May 1937, Page 6

FROM LONDON TO GOLD COAST

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How Britons Abroad Ceiebrated Coronation ONLY ITALY ALOOF;

(By Telegraph-

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(Received 13, 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 12. No event except the Great War ha* ever monopolisedv such an amount ofi space in the French newspapers as -the Uoronation. Crowds in hotels and cafea listened to the broadcast. The Italian Consulate was the only consulate af Geneva not beflagged. Malta was ablaze with red, white. and blue. A feature of the celebrations at Hopg Kong was the Chinese processions, in which there were gorgeous tableaux and two dragons. Prince and Princess Takamat* su, Princess Higashi Fushimi, and all the members of Cabinet attended tho Coronation service at Tokio with the British community. Tibetan hillfolk came from remote hamlets to see tho celebrations ab Simla. The Belgian Prime Minister, M. van Zeeland,1 gavo a* Coronation ball at Brussels. The Italian Press ignored tbe Coro. nation, but the newspaper Observatora Romano published a full report and many people listened to the broadcast in their homes. The whole German Press devoted front pages to reports from London. The Gold Coast. had a chain of.bon* fires, displays of fireworks, and dancing competitions. In Singapore, 150,000 people watched a military parade, Britons in Madrid, to the accompaniment of the detonation of insurgent shells, ceiebrated the Coronation, A small party of sixty toasted the King. Britons in Barcelona also gathered at the British Club and drank the alth of their Majesties. A Nairobi message states that there were elaborate celebrations throughout Kenya, the most picturesque of which was the roasting of two hippopotami over bonfires as part of the celebrations of the Kavirondo tribe.