MEMORABLE TOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1938, Page 6

MEMORABLE TOUR

KING & QUEEN DEPART FROM CALAIS LARGE CROWDS ASSEMBLE ALONG QUAYS. ESCORT TO MID-CHANNEL BY WARSHIPS. (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, July 22. Their Majesties concluded a memorable visit to France when they embarked at Calais on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, just before 6 p.m. Large crowds along the quayside cheered and waved farewell. A de'tachment of the Hundred and Tenth Regiment of Infantry presented arms, and while the band played the British National Anthem, the yacht slowly steamed between the two lines of French warships and out of the harbour, the warships falling in behind to escort her to mid-channel. A bunch of flowers placed by the Queen beside the wreaths on the Villers Bretonneux Memorial was an entirely unrehearsed and unexpected incident. Her Majesty was presented with this bunch of red Flan,ders poppies by a small boy, who collected them in the cornfields this morning. HOME AGAIN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME IN LONDON DEMONSTRATION OF LOYALTY AT PALACE LONDON, July 22. Their Majesties drove to Buckingham Palace from Victoria station, where they arrived at 9. p.m., through cheering crows. Thousands greeted them at the station and when the Royal car arrived at the Palace, sang “God Save the King,” and cheered and shouted until their Majesties, with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, came out on the balcony. The King bowed and the Queen kissed her hand to the crowd. The Princesses waved and the delighted people in the crowd tossed their hats into the air and repeatedly sang “God Save the King.” NEW ZEALAND’S TRIBUTE MESSAGE TO HIS MAJESTY • (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Governor-General (Viscount Galway) has despatched the following message to the King on the occasion of the unveiling by His Majesty of the Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux: “Closely linked to Australia by the imperishable name of Anzac, the Government and people of New Zealand respectfully tender to your Majesty an assurance of their loyalty and devotion on the occasion of the historic ceremony of the unveiling of the Australian War Memorial at Villers Bretonneux. Remembering the days when the soldiers of the two countries fought side by side, New Zealand once again pays her tribute to the magnificent efforts of the sons of Australia.”