WITH ROYAL PRESENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 10

WITH ROYAL PRESENTS

EMPRESS OF FRANCE’S CRUISE TOURISTS FOR AFRICA Carrying Royal p. esents for the inhabitants of the loneliest island in the world, the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of France has speeded from Southampton on the preliminary leg of her South America-Africa cruise, which started from New York. As the Empress has on board a number of passengers who wish to spend a short holiday in Jamaica, the liner is proceeding direct for Kingston, where those travellers will disembark, to be picked up again. She left with 500 passengers on her 104-day voyage, visiting Jamaica, Trinidad. Brazil. Uruguay and Argentina. From Buenos Ayres the Empress proceeds due west for Cape Town, but will stop half way across the South Atlantic at the world’s loneliest island. Tristan da Cunha, to deliver gifts contributed by sympathetic folk the world over. Among the donors are King George and Queen Mary of Great Britain, who are sending a large quantity of flour for the use of the islanders. This British possession will also receive a radio set which is intended to place them in communication with the civilised world. The radio set will be installed by the engineering staff of the Empress of France, and will have sufficient power units to assure its continued operation for. a year or even longer.

Arrived in Cape Town, the passenger has an optional excursion to the diamond mines of Kimberley, to Victoria Falls, Maf eking, Johannesburg, Pretoria, P’Maritzburg and Durban; a visit to the native Kraals, and to the Valley of the Thousand Hills. Skirting the eastern shore of Africa, the Empress of France proceeds via the Red Sea into the Mediterranean basin, visits being arranged to the Nile Valley, the Holy Land. Naples, Monacco and Gibraltar. From Gibraltar the vessel sails to Cherbourg, where the traveller has the option of a threemonth stop-over on the Continent before making the voyage home aboard any Canadian Pacific vessel.