Paris, Mar. 20.
INAL details have been put to the programme for the visit England of the French President and Mme. Albert Lebrun. They will leave Paris, tomorrow at 8.05 a.m. by special train and will arrive at Calais at 11.25 to board the liner Cóte d'Azur and sail for Dover at 11.35 under the escort of six French torpedo-boat under the command of Admiral Lacroix and fifteen military planes. In mid-Channel, an equal number of British destroyers and planes will meet the convoy and the French escort will turn beck.
Off Dover, the Côte d'Azur will be met by the British battle cruiser, H.M.S. Rodney, and the Second Squadron at 12.55. A salute will be fired. The Duke of Gloucester will board the Cóte d'Azur and welcome the French President and Mme. Lebrun in the name of Their Majesties. He will be accompanied by M. Charles Corbin, French Ambassador to the Court of St. James and by a number of British officials.
Among the British officials who place at Westminster Hall in will attend the French President for morning. M. Lebrun will then tok the duration of his stay on British|a wreath to the War Memorial soil are Viscount Allendale, Cham- Westminster. berlain to His Majesty; Sir Reginald and Mme. Lebrun will lunch at Tyrwhitt, Admiral of the Fleet, and ile with the King and It-Col. Piers Legh, Equerry to the They will be back in Lon-King. The French suite will be com- don at 330, in time to be received posed of M. Georges Bonnet, Foreign by the United Associations of Great-Minister; M. Andre Magre, Civil Gen- Britain and France at the National ral-Secretary at the Presidency of|Gallery.
Dinner at the Foreign Office the Republic; General Braconnier, and an evening at the India Office Military General-Secretary at the will conclude the day Presidency of the Republic, and M.
The official visit will come to an Pierre Tiressy, Head of M. Bonnet's|end on the morning of the follow secretariat. day. M. and Mme. Lebrun will leave Mme. Lebrun will be accompanied London st 9.55 and Dover at 11.45. by Mme. Braconnier and Mme. Loze. They will disembark at "Calais at wife of the Chief of the Protocol at p.m. the Quay d'Orsay.
Re-Election as President Ceremony at Dover Prezident y ber At 1 o'clock, the President and his wife will be received at Dover by the Marquis of Willingdon, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Mifitary honours will be rendered on land by a detachment of the Royal Fusiliers.
After an address to be delivered by the Lord Mayor of Dover, a special train, leaving at 120 pin. will take the visitors to London. They will reach Victoria Station at 3 o'clock, to be met by the King and Queen, by members of he Royal Family; the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain; Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary; Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Minister; the Lord Mayor of London and numerous British personalities. Honours will be rendered by a batallion of Scots Guards. The French President and Mme. Lebrun will then proceed to Buckingham Palace where they will be received by the Lords and Ladies in Waiting to Their Ma-jostles.
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