Along the Route.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1, 22 April 1914, Page 5

Along the Route.

ROYAL VISIT TO FRANCE.

LEAVING LONDON. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press London, April 20. Immense crowds, including members of the French Embassy, witnessed their Majesty's departure at Victoria station. French papers acclaim the political significance of the visit. THEIR MAJESTIES' ESCORT AT SEA. (Received 8.55 a.m.) London, April 21. Naval aeroplanes circled round the Royal yacht and the escorting cruisers as they left Dover.

A GREAT OVATION. WONDERFUL CORDIALITY. Paris, April 21. Their Majesties received a great ovation at Calais. Troops guarded the railway line to Paris. President Poincare and his Ministers welcomed the Royal party at Bois deBoulogne station. Fifteen thousand troops lined the route to the Elysee Palace (the town residence of the President). / A dense crowd in the Champs Elysee enthusiastically cheered the visitors. Newspapers acclaim the political significance of the visit. Some urge the strengthening of the Entente m order that those who would play with powder may know the danger to which they exposed them selves. Others regard the handshake of loyal Englishmen as more binding than all the protestations and signatures, and urge that there is no need of treaties to be united against danger.

THE ROYAL BANQUET. MAINTAINING THE ENTENTE. FRIENDSHIP AND RECIPROCITY. (Received Noon.) Paris, April '2l. At the banquet at tho Elysee, President Poincaro expressed France's intense pleasure at the Royal visit. The Entente, ho said, had proved permanent and efficacious, and was one of the surest guarantees of the equilibrium of Europe being maintained. King George, speaking in French, said he felt a peculiar pleasure in being in the midst of the French people on the tenth anniversary of the agreements leading to their intimate and cordial relations, and enabling them to co-operate in the humanitarian work of civilisation and peace. King George thanked President Poincare, and recalled the name of his beloved father, which would ever remain associated with the Entente. King George concluded by expressing his most profound and sincere friendship for France. ■,