TRAVELLERS RETURN
E.S.U. RECEPTION
ENTERTAINING ADDRESSES
. "There is only one thing left for me to say," said Mrs. D. V. Claridge at an English-speaking Union function yesterday afternoon, "and that is that we must at the earliest possible moment go home to England and make a tour of India en route!"
Her remarks ■ were addressed to an audience of about fifty E.S.U. members, who had gathered in the Conference Hall of the Dominion Farmers' Institute to hear Mrs. R. G. C. Ffitch. who has-recently;-returned from a tour of jndia,v and Mrs. ; :J.' Bennie, 'who, with her.. daughter^ ".recently'...completed a tour of England. ,''-'■'■■.'.'
Mrs. Bennie told many amusing incidents of. life at "Home," and of_ the places she had visited. En route 'she had seen much of interest.: In the Suez Canal they had encountered an Italian hospital ship carrying soldiers, wounded in the Abyssinian War, home to Italy; they had passed an Italian troooship laden with soldiers; and had seen
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 49, 27 February 1937, Page 18
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