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Show WISH PRINCE GIVEN WELCOME AT Sf OIECB SAN DIEGO, April 7. Pleasure at being able again to touch at an Aineri-jcan Aineri-jcan port, was expressed by Edward, !' princp of Wales, who arrived hero to-'(day to-'(day for a visit of two days enroute ; to Australia. Welcomed today by a committee which included Gov. William D. Stephens Steph-ens of California; Mayor Louis J. Wilde of San Diego, Vice Admiral Williams of the Pacific fleet and many ciiir.ens, the royal visitor had n" full day of entertainment. After the formal for-mal greeting aboard the battle cruiser cruis-er Renown, which is bearing the prince to the Antipodes, he was a guest at a luncheon aboard the superdread-naught superdread-naught New Mexico, talked to an audience au-dience in the municipal auditorium, was taken for a drive about the city' and tonight was the guest at a ball given by Mayor nndMrs. Wilde at Cor-onado, Cor-onado, across the bay from here. Nearly every business house n town dosed at noon, Mayor Wilde having declared de-clared an official half holiday, and when the prince and his suite came ashore after the luncheon, they were greeted by thousands who lined the streets over which the party drove. Addresses 20,000. Persons familiar with the seating capacity of the auditorium In which the .prince spoke, estimated the crowd at more than 20,000 persons. A sound j intensifying device made his words audible to the throng. The prince said he vas glad to again touch at an American port', rp-f rp-f cried to the "wonderful lime" he had enjoed at Washington and other eastern east-ern cities last year, and expressed the hojfe that he miglu return in Ihe fu-i lure for a more extended stay. j Jle wore a navuil uniform today and appeared to be in excellent health and spirits. He posed obligingly for ari-jous ari-jous camera men, stood in his automobile auto-mobile during the trip u,p broadway (and in eery way acceded to the plans 1 that had been made for him. Whllp he was ashore, many of the crew of the Jltnowji had shore liberty. |