THE PRINCE?

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1920, Page 5

THE PRINCE?

VISIT TO WEST INDIES,

"PEOPLE NOT FOR SALE."

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright,

Received Sept. 19, 5.5 p.m.

Port of Spain (Trinidad), Sept. 18,

H.M.S. Renown arrived at Trinidad to-day. The Prince of Wales ia in excellent health.

Landing in the morning, the Prince went through every programme of ceremonial engagements in terribly hot weather. He has a quiet day to-morrow, and leaves on Sunday night for Demerara on board the light cruiser Calcutta. He then rejoins the Renown after a round of visits among the West Indies islands, afterwards .proceeding to Portsmouth.

In the course of a speech at a Government House dinner, the Prince returned to the subject of the British West Indies. He said, in reference to the suggestion that the British Empire wight be willing to part with one or more of the British West Indies islands to a foreign power: "I should like to say here what I said in Barbadoe3 in March, that British subjects are not for Sale. The King and all of us in the Old Country have very much at hear*- the welfare jf Trinidad, and of all the British West Indies, as of all other British possessions." Tho Prince said he was glad that the people of Trinidad were making the most of their splendid resources, and were developing them vigorously.—Aus.N.Z, Cable Assn.

[The allusion is to a desire expressed by the United States to secure one or more of the islands in the British West Indies.]