THE ROYAL TOUR.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 May 1923, Page 3

THE ROYAL TOUR.

Australian and n.z. caulk association. t*-,..: THK KWi AND QUKKN. " ROME, M«v HI. King Cl eor go and Queen Mary went a long motor drive to .Plateau Asj.igo, where there was furious fighting in the offensives of 1910 and 1918. All the hamlets were decorated with little triumphal arches of greenery and flowors. Their Alajesties lunched in the open air at a. snot where a detachment of British troops hold the front for nine months, overlooking the precipitioiis slopes of the Vaal Dossa. Their Majesties also had glimpses ot the terrible nature of the fighting m the mountain defiles and fastnesses.

AN lAIPRESSIVE SPEECH. (Received this day at 8.50 a.m.j ROME, May 1-1

King George, in the course of an impressive speech delivered at the foot of the Cross of Sacrefice at Alontece no said: “1 dure to hope, as the world steadies anew in its orbit and realises what gulfs of horror it has passed over, it will resolve, by God’s help, so far as it lies in the power of the men entrusted with authority, that war shall not, henceforth, be accepted as a burden recurrent and inevitable, upon mankind. For their honours sake and in token of our love and pride wo have so built the graves of our fallen that they may endure a sign of this and our hope.”