ROYAL TOUR
The Prince’s Fifth VISIT TO AFRICA BROTHER WITH HIM British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Sunday. The Prince of Wales will leave England on Thursday to tour East Africa. This will be the fifth of his Empire journeys. The feature of the coming tour will be that the route through Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia ■will he across regions which, even in the boyhood of the Prince, w r ere almost unknown to white men. His Royal Highness, who will be accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, will travel overland to Marseilles and thence in the P. and O. liner Kaiser-I-Hind to Alexandria. The Princes will have luncheon with King Fuad of Egypt on the first day of their arrival in that country. They will probably spend a day in Cairo and afterwards join the British India Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Malda in the Suez Canal. The Malda will a special stop at Ismailia for the Royal party, and v/ill sail thence for Mombasa on September 14. She will call for a few hours at Port Sudan on September 17 and at Aden on September 20. Mombasa should be reached on September 28. There a stay of two days will he made. From Mombasa a journey of 320 miles to Nairobi, the seat of the Government, will be taken. There two days will probably be spent in official engagements. MOVEMENTS IN KENYA The movements of Their Royal Highnesses in Kenya will not be finally settled until they have had an opportunity of discussing them with the Governor. On hte conclusion of their stay in Kenya the Princes will visit Uganda and Tanganyika, and according to present plans they will motor into Northern Rhodesia and join the railway at Broken Hill. They will then make thei rway through the two Rhodesias into the Union of South Africa. As the Prince of Wales paid an official visit to South Africa in 1925 he hopes to spend a few weeks there unofficially on this occasion. Christmas will be spent by the Royal tourists at Capetown with the Earl of Athlone, Governor-General of South' Africa.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9
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352ROYAL TOUR Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 9
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