HAIL DER KAISER!
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(United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)
OPENING OF BERLIN STADIUM.
AN IMPOSING CEREMONY
(R:coived Last Night. 10.15 o'clock.) BERLIN, June 9.
There wore thirty thousand spectators at the opening of the Stadium, despite wie fact that standing room cost two marks.
General Podbielski greeted the Kais.n 1 and the Empress on behalf of two and a quarter million athletes affiliated with the Imperial Committee of the Olympic Games. He also released 10,000 military pigeons, bearing to all parts of Germany the Kaiser's motto, "Ever ready for the Empire's glory.!" Thirty thousand athletes bearing a thousand banners, then marched past, saluting the Emperor, and crying, "Hail!"
They were headed by ten thousand gymnasts, and followed by twenty thousand cyclists, four thousand footballers, lawn tsnnis flayers, swim mers, runners, and skaters, 8500 Boy Scouts and five hundred Girl Scouts bringing up the rear. Displays followed in the form of women club . swinging and wall-scal-ing by guardsmen. » The Kaiser stood for two hours returning the salutes.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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168HAIL DER KAISER! Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 June 1913, Page 5
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