THE PRINCE AT CEYLON.
REMARKABLE LOYALTY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Delhi. March 22. The demonstrative loyalty of Colombo was again shown this morning when the Prince of Wales inspected the Island infantry and presented the colors in the broiling heat. When the ceremony was over thousands of Cingalese rushed eagerly around him cheering wildly. When his car drove off to the Queen’s House, the crowd ran after it, still shouting for tfie King and the Prince and waving tfnion. Jacks. There Were the same signs of universal loyalty last night when the streets were packed with slow-moving processions. Spectators on foot crowded over into the motor-cars, rickshaws, and carts surging round Queen’s House with their flags and cries for the Prince.
THE VISIT TO JAPAN. GREAT PREPARATIONS, Tokio, March 22. Those sections of Japan which the Prince of Wales will visit are getting a thorough scrubbing and road repairing, while the railway stations are being repainted. The special train is ready. The children in the streets everywhere are singing and whistling “God Save the King.” Hundreds of shops in Tokio ind Yokohama to-day began selling Union Jacks and other British decora:ions. On the third day of the visit there will be a review of the Tokio garrison, it which the Prince is expected to appear in the uniform of a Japanese general, after being commissioned with iha honorary
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1922, Page 5
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228THE PRINCE AT CEYLON. Taranaki Daily News, 24 March 1922, Page 5
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