KING ON TOUR
INSPECTION OF SOUTHERN COMMAND ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION FROM TROOPS. TRAVEL THROUGH TWO COUNTIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY. January 2. The King paid a visit today to the troops in the Southern Command, where he was met by a parade of four thousand men, who . greeted him with a burst of cheering. After an inspection of this centre and talking with many officers and men, his Majesty drove in a camouflaged car to a number of small villages in the area where units have been stationed. At each place the King left his car and walked down the lines and at one place he walked over a mile along a road lined with enthusiastically cheering men. At this point, his Majesty’s only escort was a crowd of evacuated children, who followed closely behind him. His Majesty’s tour took him through two counties and occupied most of a day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 6
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154KING ON TOUR Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 January 1940, Page 6
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