London, Jan. 7.
The accolade of knighthood was bestowed for the frst time in public and in a factory during the King and Queen's tour of bombed Sheffield, They Visited first a huge steel works where they saw production in ull swing unhampered by the effects of the raid. At the end of the visit, the King mounted dais "with Ins. Alan Grant, the managing-director of Messrs, Thomas Firth and John Brown Limited, who had con-' @ucted him: round. He knelt before the King who taking a sword from his Equery touched him on both shoulders saying "Avise, Sir Allan," while hundreds of workers gathered around cheered—Reuter, ime, Britain will be installed in a position from which further attacks on Italy may be conceived and car ried out,
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