The Ceremony. "It was roses, roses all the way." With thousands of cheering people blackening the windows and house-hops, stately cuirassiers of the Royal Guard on prancing horses curvetting beneath triumphal arches, bands blaring the Marcia Reale, His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, last week entered his loyal City of Fiume. The cannon roared the salute of 21 guns as the King, accompanied by Admiral Thaon de Revel, Minister of Marine, and General of Police de Bono, rode over streets paved with flowers, to the City Hall, where Dr. Grossich,...
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