TREMENDOUS RECEPTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1939, Page 6

TREMENDOUS RECEPTION

MONTREAL WELCOMES KING AND QUEEN Great Assemblage Cheers Itself Hoarse TWENTY-THREE MILES OF PROCESSIONAL ROUTE REDSKINS STRIKE THEIR OWN NOTE By Telegraph.—Press Association • -Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) MONTREAL, May 18. The Australian Associated Press special correspondent savs Canada’s biggest city and the world’s largest inland port o'ave Their Majesties a tremendous reception today. Montreal s normal population of 1.300,000 was swelled to upwards of two millions, many travelling hundreds of miles from the far corners of the province, and the people cheered themselves hoarse aloAg twentv-three miles of processional route. It was the largest crowd to greet their Majesties until they reach New ■ York on June 10. Obviously deeply moved by the warmth of their reception, their Majesties were particularly delighted at two functions in the crowded day—a gathering of 85,000 French-Canadian children at Bali Park and one of 15,000 Anglo-Canadians at Molson Stadium. They heard “God Save the King’’ and “Vive Le J Koi’’ sung and shouted and Empire flags waved with equal •. enthusiasm.

There was no doubting the warmth of the Redskins’ welcome to their Majesties, even though the presence of a Scottish plaid struck an anachronistic note in the otherwise authentic garb of Chief Old Big Sun, who expressed himself in verse: “We used to scalp our foes, and eat their juicy limbs, But now we’ve learnt the arts of peace as taught in Christian hymns. We used to dance and whoop, but now that we can sing. We’ll wave our bloodless tomahawks, and cry “God save the King.”