INDIA'S GERMAN VISITOR.
The approaching visit of the German Crown Prince to India and the East has awakened very great interest. There is, however, not the slightest need to invest the project with a significance in excess of its real aim. Travel has' become an essential part of the training of future rulers of great nations, and now that international interests are world-wide the journeys of Princes should not be confined to Europe alone. The Crown Prince will arrive in India on December 14th, after making a short stay in Ceylon, and will leave two months later for China and Japan, reaching Tokio probably in April, and making his return journey via Siberia in May. Nowhere in his Eastern wanderings will the Crown Prince be more warmly received than in India. The traditional hospitality of Hindustan finds expression upon such occasions in the welcome extended by Government, Princes, and peoples alike. But in this instance the greeting will be doubly cordial ; for the Imperial visitor is not only the heir to a great and powerful Throne, but he is also the kinsman of the King-Emperor and the descendant of an English Princess. In India, where royal genealogies are held to be of supreme importance, the family ties that connect the Crown Prince with the Royal Family will be deemed even more significant than they are in the West. Though the visit will ho short, lasting only two months, it will be long enough to give the Crown Prince more than a fleeting glimpse of the vast Eastern dominions of Great Britain. The Crown Prince cannot fail to be interested in contemplating the spectacle of a population enjoying a degree of security and material well-being never before known in the Indian peninsula; in being the guest of powerful Princes who gladly own allegiance to their overlord, the King-Emperor; in inspecting the strong native Army, including some of the finest light cavalry in the world, which is not mercenary in spirit, but loyal and devoted. It will be a great object lesson of the greatest possible educational value to the young Prince.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 29 October 1910, Page 4
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350INDIA'S GERMAN VISITOR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10131, 29 October 1910, Page 4
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