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The Prince of Wales' visit to India – letter to King George V
the East Indian Community in Australia foster the highest feelings of respect to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on his visit to India. The loyalty and attachment to Your Majesty's Throne has been strengthened by the recent visit of the Prince of Wales to Australia.
Indians in Australia have a high and noble affection for His Royal Highness. We hail the event of His Royal Highness' visit to India. We know that our Prince, will accrue [sic], from personal intercourse with our Princes and Chiefs, a knowledge of the great Empire over which – with the Will of Almighty God – he will reign some day. To-day [sic] His Royal Highness' tour of India has filled one of the most prominent places in the history of India. India has already recorded on her imperishable tablets the deeds of her heroes in thewar [sic]. We may dwell on our heroic deeds – deeds at Kut-el-Mara – unequalled in the records of the most heroic Nations – but we do not forget for one moment, our National humiliations to Your Majesty, and no self-blindness of our own, no specious reasoning will ever remove the East Indians of Australia from the true introduction of wise and beneficient [sic] laws of your Majesty's Empire.
We, the East Indians of Australia, through our Representative, Mr James Kavanagh, welcome your beloved son to India; but Your Majesty will find nowhere a more loyal and united community to your Majesty's Throne than the Indians of Australia.
May the King of all Nations – Almighty God – bless and preserve His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, long to
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adorn the proud position which His Royal Highness occupied as Prince of Wales.
With deepest respect we beg leave as the leading East Indians of Australia to subscribe ourselves:
