Hongkong, May 6.
It is estimated that 200,000 Chinese visitors from every part of south China have arrived in Hongkong for he celebrations in connection with the King's Silver Jubilee.
"The great influx has taxed all available accommodation to the utmost. Many of the poorer visitors have spent their all in passages, and some of them have even made the pavements their temporary home.
'A feature of the day's events will be processions of grotesque "dragons" costing tens of thousands of dollars, which will be manipulated by speci ally-picked experts.
'At night the Colony will be ablaze with iVumination, and it is estimate: That half' a million Lights will' be fturad on at eight pin. A feature wi, be a huge sign on the Feading "God Save The Kinga German Toast in Hongkong Hongkong, May 1 Despite animosities fanned to flame uring the World War, Germany has ever ceased to regard the people of Great Britain as cousins, the Ger~ man Consul, Herr Gipperich, declared today in a formal toast' to King. George.
The occasion was a German reception paying homage to the British monarch in connection with the Silver Tubilee celebration throughout the despite the Great War, we have never ceased to regard the people of Britain as our cousins"—United Press.
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