All Berlin Greets British Monarchs.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 22, 1913:
Kaiser and Kaiserin and Other Royalties at Station to Meet King George and Queen Mary.
A NEW TREATY RUMORED
Belgians Alarmed by Report of an Anglo-German Understanding in Regard to Central Africa.
    BERLIN, May 21.— True "Hohenzollern weather" — brilliant sunshine and cloudless skies — has set in for the wedding festivities of Princess Victoria Louise, only daughter of the German Emperor, and Prince Ernest Augustus of Cumberland, which will take place on Saturday.
    The official receptions began this morning with the arrival here of the bridegroom and the State entry into Berlin of King George and Queen Mary of England.
    There was no ceremony to greet Prince Ernest Augustus when he reached the station at 8:25 A.M. He drove at once in an automobile to the castle, where he took breakfast with his bride-to-be before returning to the station to meet the British monarchs.
    At the station awaiting the arrival of the royal train were the Emperor and the Crown Prince in the uniforms of their British regiments, together with the Empress and Princess Victoria Louise. All the royal personages assembled m Berlin, and a mass of brilliantly uniformed military and naval officers and Ministerial and Court functionaries surrounded them.
    King George and Queen Mary, when they alighted from the train were greeted with the customary cordial embraces by the Emperor and Empress and the other members of the imperial family. King George and Emperor William then jointly passed in review the guard of honor drawn up on the platform.
    The two monarchs together and the Queen and Empress side by side then drove in open state carriages through the Avenue of Victory, and Unter den Linden to the Castle, each carriage being escorted by a squadron of cavalry with pennoned lances. The wide thoroughfares were lined with troops of the Guards regiment, and behind them all Berlin seemed to have gathered.
    The dirigible balloons Zeppelin and Hansa, flying the British colors, had accompanied the royal train from Rathenow, about fifty miles away, and hovered over the carriages as they drove toward the castle.

    BRUSSELS, May 21.— An article published by the Berlin Post reporting the conclusion of an Anglo-German understanding with respect to Central Africa is causing the Belgian press great alarm.
    The opinion is expressed by the newspapers here that the pourparlers preceding the understanding have been the cause of the delay in Great Britain's acknowledgment of Belgian sovereignty in the Congo.
    It is recalled that Germany displayed suspicious anxiety to become Belgium's neighbor in Central Africa at the time of the Franco-German treaty regarding Morocco.