The Premier, Mr. Stanley Bald~ win, greeted the Prince on his are rival at Folkestone at 8.44 p.m. and Doth eft for London in a special train four minutes Inter.
On their arrival at Victoria Station' at 10.18 the Pripee was met bythe Duke of York.
Long before he was duc dens throngs gathered in the cold, wet right at every approach to the station, which was guarded large force of police.
Tu accordance with the Prince's request, hit arrival was marked by complete lack of formality. There war no customary red carpet, fags, and no press photographers on the. platform.
The Duke of York arrived just before the train steamed in. The Prince of Wales, looking tired and anxious, alighted in his usual brisk manner and was warmly greeted by brother.
The thousands who had been waiting in sympathetic silence for the son who was hastening to the bed-side of his sick father loudly cheered as the Prince of in a motor-car and immediately drove to Buckingham Palace, where he at-rived at 10.25, 'A big crowd had waited outside Buckingham Palace after the bu latin was posted at 9 o'clock. This included many undergraduates who had come to London for the "Varsity rugger match, in which connection ere was a notable absence of rageing" in the West End tonight,
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