London, Feb. 10.
Holding her hat against, a strong wind, the Queen stood yesterday on a dirty, smoke-giimed collier listening to the skipper's explanation of the working of recently-installed defensive armament against U-boats or bombers.
"This was one incident in a surprise visit which the King and Queen paid to Cardiff in the course of the tour they are making of west Britain, The Welsh people. gave them the biggest welcome they hat had since the war began, When the news of their arrival leaked out, 20,000 people ignored air-raid precautions against the assembly of big crowds, gathered in the city square and cheered.
The King and Queen separated to sec as much as possible of local wartime activities, and the Queen dropped in to see hundreds of girls making brass shell cases in a factory which until recently manufactured pots and pans.—Reuter.
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