VISIT TO RHINE AREA.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 May 1920, Page 3

VISIT TO RHINE AREA.

WITH THE NEW ZEALANDERS. MINGLING WITS"ALL RANKS. Frequent references have teen made by the Prince, in speeches, to his close association witfi the overseas troops during the war. He paid a visit to the New Zealand Division almost at the end of its career a< a miit of the Expeditionary Force m Europe, while it formed a portion of the army of occupation on the Rhine. The official correspondent with the division gives the following account of that visit:—The Prince of Wales lias paid the New Zealand Force the compliment of a visit while it is still in the field, and before it returns to its own land. 7Je came 011 to the division in an open car and attended only by a young army captain who usually accompanies him on these journeyings. The unostentatious manner In .which lie travels tippenls to the arinv as a whole, and especially to the troops from oversea. The Germans soon became aware that the Prince was in their midst, but there were not manv who recognised him a? lie walked through the streets of Cologne or entered shops to maKe some ordinary purchase. With his youthful appearance and two row* of ribbons, he was taken, as he often was m French towns, for an airman During Ins stay with 11s the Prince has spared neither time nor trouble to seas many officers and men of the division as possible. Yesterday he had a great day with the "Diggers." mis.»n(r~ and chatting with them in the billets'wherc they were quartered, at a sbootln™ match, where he himself shot, and at a football match.