ROUND OF GREETINGS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 133, 8 June 1939, Page 13

ROUND OF GREETINGS

WINDSOR, ONTARIO

AMERICANS PARTICIPATE

WINDSOR (Ontario), June 6.

Their train an hour late, due to delays caused by the welcoming throngs and an unscheduled stop on the journey through southern Ontario, their Majesties, who spent 34 minutes here, saw for the first time the skyscrapers of an American city —Detroit—soo,ooo of whose inhabitants crossed the border to catch a glimpse of Royalty. Detroit's own welcome was a sign 45 feet long and 15 feet high, reading: "Detroit welcomes their Majesties the King and Queen." Their Majesties experienced the most gruelling day of their tour, standing for hours on the back platform of the train as it crawled through towns and even crossroads thronged with immense crowds, and keeping up a seemingly endless round of greetings. Despite pain from an elbow injury received when the train came to a sudden stop at Stratford, throwing him against the wall on the platform, the King did not reduce the programme one jot. The Queen, dressed in a light rose beige costume, which matched her fox neck-piece and white hat, was a striking figure as she stepped from the train at Windsor. The King wore a grey lounge suit. Their Majesties, after a presentation of civic officials, conversed with war veterans. Thirty thousand school children who had sat for hours in' special stands some distance from the station were bitterly disappointed when the Royal train failed to make a scheduled stop on the journey away from Windsor. Many cried in their disappointment.