QUEEN VISITS ABERDEEN
(Rec. W p.m.) ABERDEEN, August 13. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ended their three-day tour round the coast of Scotland in the Royal yacht, Britannia, with a four-and-a-half-hour visit to Aberdeen today. It was the Queen’s first visit to Aberdeen since her accession. After the visit, the Queen and the Duke motored to Balmoral for their summer holiday. Prince Charles and Princess Anne entertained the quayside crowd with a game of deck quoits as the Britannia berthed at Aberdeen. While the Queen and the Duke visited Aberdeen, the Royal children motored on to Balmoral with Princess Margaret, Princess Andrew of Greece (the Duke’s mother), and Prince Michael of Kent. During the afternoon, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, flew from Caithness in a Viking of the Queen’s Flight to join the Balmoral party. She had been in Caithness for a week’s holiday. Former Nazi Spy Deported.—Erich -Gimpel, a former Nazi spy imprisoned after entering the United States from a U-boat during the war, was deported today to Germany. The Justice Department disclosed the forced departure in a terse announcement after Gimpel had been transferred from the Atlanta, Georgia. Federal prison to New York City and placed on board the s.s. Italia.—Washington, August 12.
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Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27737, 15 August 1955, Page 11
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