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Sunday, October 22nd, 1972

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BEATING OF RETREAT, ABERDEEN

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6.30 p.m. to 7.10 p.m.

Her Royal Highness will carry out her first engagement as Honorary

Commandant General of the Royal Hong Kong Police when she attends the ceremonial

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Beating of Retreat at the Police Training School in Aberdeen.

OPEN PRESS facilities will be available.

Editors are asked to note

that the ceremony will be held in darkness or semi-darkness and that the use

of flashlights will not be permitted. Also, because of the nature of the

ceremony the Press position will have to be sited outside the perimeter of

the parade ground and at some distance from the official dais. However,

photographers will be able to photograph H.R.H. being greeted on arrival and

of H.R.H. being piped back to her car at the end of the ceremony.. Flash will

be allowed for these photographs only.

Transport will be provided by the R.H.K.P.

The Press bus will leave

Police Headquarters, Arsenal Street at 5.20 p.m. and will return to Police

Headquarters after the ceremony.

Monday, October 23rd, 1972

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Pekka Ma

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POLICE HEADQUARTERS, ARSENAL STREET - 10.50 a.m. to 12.00 p.4.

Princess Alexandra will visit the Police Headquarters at Arsenal Street

on Monday morning. To commemorate the visit, H.R.H. will unveil a plaque at the

extension building now under construction. Following this, she will visit the

Arsenal Street Rank and File Married Quarters and will be invited to meet one

of the families. H.R.H. will also visit the Folice Primary School.

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OPEN PRESS facilities will be provided at the unveiling of the plaque

and for the visit to the school. Due to limited space, Press representatives

will not be able to enter the flat in the Married Quarters. Pool reporting and

photography will be undertaken by official team. A pool report of her visit to

the flat will be issued on the G.I.S. teleprinter and official pictures will be

available as soon as possible afterwards.

/Press