PEACE CELEBRATIONS.
(By Electric Telegraph—CopyrigT.) Australia N.Z Cable Association.) ON HUGE SCALE; (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Preparations for London’s peace celebrations arc proceeding on a vast scale. The route of the procession is festooned with banners, bunting, and flags. Everywhere throughout London, public and private buildings are gaily decorated. There was a great inrush of provincial and continental visitors, j Sight-seers are already crowding the j streets to inspect the decorations. Marshal Foch, General Weyyand and. twenty other Allied Generals arrive to- j night- . . Several Allied contingents, including twelve hundred French, under General t Debency ahd a rousing reception at Vic- j toria Station. [ Six American troop trains have. reached Waterloo station from the Rhine. I
Elaborate arrangements for feeding the crowds have been made. Marquee restaurants are in the principal parks. There will be all night trams and tube trains on Saturday.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1919, Page 3
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148PEACE CELEBRATIONS. Hokitika Guardian, 18 July 1919, Page 3
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