THE ROYAL PROGRESS
FOG ON ATLANTIC
LINER FREQUENTLY HOVE TO
(Received May 12, 11 a.m.) . LONDON, May 11. The Empres of Australia has encountered heavy fog, and is making a maximum of 10 knots an hour during good patches. She was frequently hove ito.
Specially invited by the Queen, stewards, stokers, and firemen crowded the main dining-room of the. Empress of Australia last evening for a cinema show, which included two Walt Disney cartoons and Gordon Harker's "Return of the Frog." Some of the men wore civilian clothes and others their working kit.
Their Majesties, in the afternoon, watched the escorting cruisers showing off their gunnery efficiency. H.M.S. Southampton put up a smoke and shell cloud, which the cruiser's anti-air-craft gunners peppered, white puffs marking hits.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 110, 12 May 1939, Page 9
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