26 NOVEMBER 1921, Page 2

Tho Prince of Wales landed at Bombay on Thursday, November

17th, and had a moat enthusiastic reception from dense crowds of Indians. Ho read a message from the King, who recalled his own visit to India and expressed his hope that' the Prince's tour would " ripen good will into a yet fuller understanding." The King said :- " It is my warmest prayer that wisdom and contentment, growing hand in hand, will lead India into ever-increasing national greatness within a free Empire—the Empire for which I labour and for which, if it be the Divine will, my son shall labour after me."

The Prince began his long and arduous progress through India by visiting Poona on Saturday and laying the foundation- atones of the Mahratta War Memorial and of a memorial to Sivaji, the Mahratta hero of the seventeenth century.