The Archive · 1939

Sail on Saturday Departure from Portsmouth

In C.P.R. Liner at 3 p.m.

London, May 3.

Their Majesties will leave London next Saturday for Portsmouth where they wil board the C.P.R. liner Empress of Australia for Canada.

The Princesses, Queen Mary, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent will accompany the King and Queen to Portsmouth.

The Royal party will leave Buckingham Palace at 12.20 p.m. escorted by a detachment of Life Guards.

Mr. Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, and Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, will bid farewell to King George and Queen Elizabeth at Waterloo Station.

Stanley stated today that he hoped there would be a considerable relaxation in these restrictions next The High Commissioner for Canada, Mr. Vincent Massey, will travel in the train from London to Portsyt The effect on the trade of the United Kingdom, Mr. Stanley declared, would clearly be serious, and the whole situation was now being considered.

Mr. Nash was to visit Britain early in June to discuss, among other subjects, the effect of the New Zealand import restrictions on the trade between the United Kingdom and the Dominions. mouth.

The Empress of Australia will sail at 3 p.m. for Canada.

Their Majesties were to have travelled on the battle-cruiser H.M.S. Repulse, but the Admiralty decided at the last moment that it was preferable to keep the warship in home waters owing to the international situation—Havas.

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