THE ROYAL TOUR
END OF QUEENSLAND VISIT DUKE HAS NO SPECIAL COLORS. Press, Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. BRISBANE, April 13. Further scenes of enthusiasm marked the last day of the Duke and Duchess in Queensland. The Duke received a number of immigrants and assured them that they had a wonderful country. At a ceremony at the University the degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon the Duke. In .every place that the Duke and Duchess have visited in Australia the predominant colors of the decorations have been scarlet and gold, the belief icing that these colors belonged to the House of York. At a garden party in Brisbane the Duke asked the Mayor the meaning of the. colors and inquired if they were special Australian colors. On being told the reason for their predominance the Duke said that he had no special colors. A "BOLSHEVIST STATE.” COMPLETE REFUTATION. LONDON, April 13. (Received April 14, at 10.10 a.m.) Air J. Huxham (Agent-General) said that Queensland’s unexampled reception of the Duke and Duchess of York was the most complete refutation of an English newspaper’s slander that Queensland was a Bolshevist State. — 4 Argus ’ and Sydney 4 Sun ’ Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 5
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196THE ROYAL TOUR Evening Star, Issue 19533, 14 April 1927, Page 5
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