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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1953.
Queen's Journey A Reminder Of Empire Solidarity
Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, who have been called the British Empire's best salésfith, sét bút on Nov. 23 on a six-month tour that will take them around the world.
With the Commonwealth undergoing modern stresses and strains, the tour is intended primarily to remind the world-and the British people themselves-that the Empire is still a going concern.
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It will be a friendly visit stipped of many of the chiefs royal trappingi nid any show of
than) force,
The Queen
and Duke will make most of the juncy on in medium-sized passenger ship, the Gothic, that will also be carrying toos of cargo in its holds. They will travel, too, to some places by and aboard chartered pirliner the royal yacht Britamla.
The order has gone out from Transport House: Find out the
reason.
So a rota investigation is to be made of women's lives in factories, shops and effices to try to da eut why only 1,300,000 of the mon women work are union members,
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It is the hot balion: 1 survey of its kind and, prompted by the Amalgamated Engineering Union,
The homeward leg of the trip
The Gothic will be wafting Iov the Queen and her husband at Jamaica. They will beard # at Kingston on Nov. 27 and then snil for the Panama Cantil
riving the next day.
Then comes the longest leg of the tourn 17-day voyage to the exotic Fiji Islands, A British possession in the South Pacille, where Queen Elizabeth and the Duke will stay for two days.
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