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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 6, 1939
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All In Readiness Form Royal Departure For Canada
EMPRESS LINER TO FLY
WHITE ENSIGN
London, To-day.
Everything is now in readiness for the departure of the King and Queen on their visit to Canada and the United States from Portsmouth to-day on board the Canadian Pacific liner “Empress of Australia.”
·CANAL·
ACROSS NICARAGUA
Washington, To-day. General Somoza, President of Nicaragua, was greeted by Prési- dent Roosevelt in his arrival here yesterday on an official visit.
It is expected that the question of an inter-ocean canal. across Nicaragua will be discussed. Reuter:
and to Queen's Hall to see Toscanini
Their Majesties also visited
of Connaught, who is a Governor-General of Canada..
the
former
King Appoints Council
London, To-day.
THE King last night ap- pointed Counsellors of State to act in his ab- sence:
The five Counsellors. are the Queen, the Dukes of Gloucester
Princess Arthur of Connaught.
Inclusion of the Queen
neces-
gency Act of 1937, which states that the consort of the King or Queen is to be one of the Counsel-
The Royal party will number 30. Lady Nunburn-a popular feature of the programini and Kent, the Princess Royal and
holme, daughter of the Marquess of Bath, and conduct a Beethoven programme. Lady Katherine Seymour will be ladies-in-wait- ing, and the Earl of Airlie will be Lord. Cham-King's aged great-uncle, the Duke sary under the terms of the Re- berlain. The King will have two secretaries (Mr. A. Lascel- les and Captain M. Adeane) and two equerries (Lt. Col. Piers Legh and Commander E. M. C. Abel-Smith).
·
QUEEN'S DRESSES · Last night the King and Queen lors of State appointed in the So- spent the evening quietly at Buck-vereign's absence from the coun- ingham Palace with their two try or during the Sovereign's ill-
ness.
daughters, who will say farewell to their parents at Portsmouth to-day. Their Majesties are to return The "Empress of Australia," the liner part of the way across The Queen has devoted many from their Canadian tour in the which has been chartered for the the Atlantic.
hours to the dressmakers' attention, Canadian Pacific liner "Empress
of Britain." secrets
Reuter. voyage, left Southampton yesterday Only one English and one Cana-but no-one will know the for Portsmouth.
dian special correspondent and one of her dresses until she wears them. photographer will be allowed to-Reuter. travel with the Royal party.
Immediately Their Majesties go on board the Canadian Pacific liner the White Ensign will be flown. It Is believed it will be the first occa sion a merchant vessel has flown the
The first named is Gordon Young, of Reuter's, but a whole host of British and American journalists
BARON ACQUITTED
White Ensign when not commission- will assemble at the places where War Service With Theer, Sir Gerald
ed.
WHITE ENSIGN
Their Majesties will stay to fulfil their engagements.
BUSY WEEK
:
Prussian Guard
alleged that the two men deceived persons with stories about property and the family history of Berndt.
On the direction of the Record- Dodson, the jury found Baron von Richtofen not guilty, and he was discharged.
Mr. J. E. M. Gunning, for the The White Ensign is the only flag
Baron Friedrich Max Wilhelm Baron, said that the Baron, a man which from the viewpoint of Their Majesties' last week before von Richtofen, 50, described as an of unblemished character, had etiquette can be worn with the Lord sailing has been very busy, and author, was acquitted at the Old been in this country for several High Admiral's flag, which will be included their presence at the Cup Bailey recently. With Walter Hein-years as an exile from the. Nazi flown from the liner's foremasthead. Final at Wembley, dinners at the rich Berndt, a young German, he regime. He served in the Prussian... The Royal Standard will be flown residences of the High Commission-had been accused of conspiracy to Guard, received the Iron Cross on at the mainmast head and the flag er for Canada, Mr. Vincent Massey, defraud and obtaining cheques by the field during the war and was wounded at Mons. Before the war of the Canadian Pacific Railway at and the United States Ambassador, false pretences. the jackstaff.
Mr. Joseph Kennedy, visits to a music Berndt was sentenced to 18 he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford H.M.S. Repulse will accompany hall where the "Lambeth Walk" is months' imprisonment. It had been University.
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