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About noon, the N25 took the air again, bearing all six adventurers. A guard of honor of five planes flew with it up the bay to Oslo, circling away as the N25 described a triumphant arc and settled to the water offthe "honor pier." A navy cutter came alongside, battleships and Fort Akershus boomed salute, the populace of Oslo yelled and waved a welcome. Director Thormessen of the Norwegian Aero Club rushed forward, embraced each of the six fervently. There were speeches in a pavilion decked as for a returning Caesar with streaming flags and two gilt, victory-winged pylons...
Died. Christian Michelsen, 68, first premier of Norway, who took a large part in securing the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905; at Oslo...
Portuguese, French and Italian Ministers at Oslo, the Speaker of the German Reichstag, wired felicitations. The German fleet at Oslo fired a royal salute...
...more stood in rapt attention last week, while the President, speaking from the judges' stand opposite the grandstand, praised the Norwegians who first came to this country a century ago. The Norwegian Minister of Labor, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Storting, the Bishop of Oslo, the rector of the Royal Frederiks University (Oslo), the Norwegian Minister to Washington were present in honor of the centennial. Said Mr. Coolidge...
According to information received from the Norwegian Legation at Washington, the name of the City of Christiania, capital of Norway, will be changed to Oslo, its ancient name...