A ROYAL WEDDING
magnificent preparations ([United P|ess Assoeia'tion,—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) i ROME, Dec. 18. Signor Mussolini is making a stupendous effort to organise a worthy ceremony for the Royal wedding on the Bth. 1 of January. He is sending a magnificently decorated special train from Italy to Brussels to fetch the Princess and her parents and ladies-in-waiting. Hundreds of workmen are busy painting the train and hanging the carriages with tapestiies in Italian .colours of red, white and green. Mussolini is also organising the pro-
tcsission showing all peasant costumes / .from the Tyrol to Sicily. Five thousand on foot and four hundred horsejtjen are taking part. The procession w ifl be accompanied by characteristic mu vie and dancing, and will pass through the streets of Rome during the vedding. The celebrations will later t>e repeated in the provincial centres. \
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1929, Page 5
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145A ROYAL WEDDING Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1929, Page 5
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