From The Times, March 19, 1922
At 6.50 this evening the Prince of Wales stepped aboard the Comus at Kiamari, and five minutes later the gangway swung up and a vast crowd swept across from the stands from which they had witnessed his State arrival and leavetaking to the water’s edge and cheered as he appeared on deck. The band played “Auld Lang Syne” and the Prince, in a white uniform and standing between the setting sun and the waving crowd, made a memorable and wistful picture as the ship sheered away. The band burst into the strains of “Good-byee” and the smiling Prince receded from India’s shore.
The Prince drove in a State carriage, under a scarlet and gold umbrella and fan, the six-mile route from the Karachi cantonments to Kiamari, where the Governor of Bombay, the ruling Princes and all their staffs, and many friends said farewell. On his arrival in Karachi the Prince proceeded through the brilliantly decorated streets to the Frere Hall. Agitators had proclaimed a hartal [suspension of work], but hartals have a way of turning into a holiday wherever the Prince goes. At Frere Hall the Prince presented new Colours to the 126th Baluchistan Infantry and unveiled the Baluch war memorial obelisk. Here he made his last speech, doing honour to over 1,000 officers and men of the Baluch group of the Indian infantry who laid down their lives in the Great War. Afterwards the Prince held an investiture at Government House. The event of the afternoon was a children’s fete in Government Gardens where, after reviewing the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides, he received a bouquet from a charming girl group, consisting of one Mahomedan, one Hindu, one Parsi, one Khoja, one Goan, one Indian Christian, and one Jew, and gave delight to over 10,000 children who surged round the Prince, until he escaped them on to the upper lawn, where the more sober atmosphere of an adult garden party reigned. Here the overworked Prince found time for a cup of tea and a cigarette and some last informal conversations with the ruling Princes. The next and last event was the State drive of six miles to Kiamari. Crowds came for the last glimpse of the Prince, and the route was lined by troops. The pageantry of the day made a worthy ending to a memorable visit.