DAYS IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 7

DAYS IN FRANCE

PROGRAMME FOR ROYAL VISIT KING AND QUEEN GOING AT END OF JUNE. AUSTRALIAN WAR MEMORIAL TO BE UNVEILED. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Copyright. RUGBY, May 9. The programme of the State visit of the King and Queen to Paris from June 28 to July 1, is now complete. Their Majesties will travel via Dover and Boulogne, and on arrival at Paris will be received at the station by the President and Madame Lebrun, after which will follow a State drive to the Quai d’Orsay Palace, where they will stay during the visit. Following an official call on the President and Madame Lebrun, the King will receive members of diplomatic circles, and there will follow a State banquet and soiree. On June 29 the King will lay a wreath at the Unknown Warrior’s Tomb. With the Queen he will attend a reception at the Hotel de Ville, and later will visit an exhibition of British paintings at the Louvre, and will be present at a garden party. In the evening the President and Madame Lebrun will be their Majesties’ guests at a dinner at the British Embassy, followed by a gala performance at the opera. A military display at Satory will be attended by the King on June 30, and later with the Queen he will lunch at Versailles and attend a reception by the Foreign Office. The chief event on July 1 will be the unveiling by the King of the Australian national war memorial at Villers Bretonneux, after which their Majesties will return to London, via Calais and Dover.