NAVAL CONFERENCE
FIRST SPEECH BY KING
GREAT PUBLIC INTEREST
British Omcial Wireless.
(Received 21st December, 11 a.m.)
EUGBY, 20th December.
Great public interest is taken in the announcement made by the Prime Minister that the King.will make the opening address at the Five-Power Naval Conference which wiU begin- on 21st January. This will be the first occasion for over fourteen months on which the King has made a public speech. The last occasion on which he gave a public address was at the opening of the new Jyne Bridge at Newcastle on 10th October last year. A month later he attended the Cenotaph ceremony on Armistice Day, and the first announcement of his illness was made on 2?, nd November. The King and Queen leave London to-morrow for Saudringham, Norfolk where they will spend Christmas His Majesty will not return to London until the Naval Conference as-
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 9
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147NAVAL CONFERENCE Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 9
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