ROYAL TOUR

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 287, 4 September 1928, Page 10

ROYAL TOUR

OF EAST AFRICA

THE PRINCE OF WALES’S PLANS (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, September 2. The Prince of Wales’s tour of East Africa, for which he starts next Thursday, will be the fifth of his Imperial journeys. A feature of this journey will be that, the route through Tanganyika and Northern Rhodesia lies across regions which even in the Prince’s boyhood were almost unknown to white men. The Prince, who will be accompanied by his brother, the Duke of Gloucester, will travel overland to Marseilles and thence iu the liner Kaisar-I-llind to Alexandria. Their Royal Highnesses will lunch with King Fuad on the first day of their arrival in Egypt, and will probably spend a day in Giro, afterwards picking up in the Suez Canal the British India Steam Navigation Company’s steamer Maida. The Maida will make a special stop at Ismailia for the Royal party, and will sail thence for Mombasa on September 14, calling for a few hours at Port Sudan on September 17 and at Aden on September 20. Mombasa will be reached on September 28. At Mombasa a stay of two days will be made. From Mombasa a journey of 320 miles to Nairobi, the seat of Government, will be taken. Here two days will probably be spent in official engagements. The Prince’s movements in Kenyj will not be finally settled until he has had an opportunity of discussing them with the Governor on his arrival.

On the conclusion of his stay in Kenya the Prince will visit Uganda and' Tanganyika, and according to present plans he and the Duke will motor into Northern Rhodesia and pick up the railway at Broken Hill. They will then make their way through the two Rhodesias into the Union of South Africa, where, having paid an official visit as recently as 1925, His Royal Highness hopes to spend a few weeks unofficially. Christmas will be spent in Cape Town with the Earl of Athlone, the Governor-General of South Africa, and Princess Alice.