IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

Evening Star, Issue 19381, 15 October 1926, Page 5

IMPERIAL CONFERENCE

FIRST SESSION OH TUESDAY KK EUNICE HAS AUDIENCE WITH KM ROYAL TOUR DISCUSSED. Press Association —By Telcjrapli—Copyright. LONDON, October 14. At 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning Mr Baldwin will inaugurate the Imperial Conference at a private session at No. 10 Downing street, and will deliver an address of welcome to which tho seas Prime Ministers will reply. No set agenda has been drawn up, and the conference will decide day hy day what subjects shall bo taken. It is learned that when tho King granted an audience to Mr Bruce His Majesty showed the keenest interest in tho forthcoming tour of tho Duko and Duchess of York. Ho expressed his pleasure at tho invitation, recalling his own and the Prince of Wales’s tours of Australia and New Zealand. Hi., Majesty gave close attention to tho details of tho proposed itinerary. Mr Bruce will probably discuss the programme with the Duke and Duchess of York to-morrow, and it is understood that it will be published at the end nl tho week, after consultation with Mr Coates, who arrives on Priday. Mr Bruce is already crowded with engagements. lie has had interviews with several Cabinet Ministers, and on Saturday afternoon ho will addressthousands of children attending Sir Alan Cobham’s lecture in the Albcn Hall. This will afford a much wider audience throughout Britain, as the proceedings will bo wirelessly broadcasted.