PRINCE OF WALES

Evening Star, Issue 20089, 1 February 1929, Page 7

PRINCE OF WALES

TOUR OF MINING AREAS DEEPLY TOUCHED BY PEOPLE'S PLIGHT. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph- Copyright. RUGBY, January 31. (Received ’February 1, at noon.) The Prince of Whiles, for the third day in succession, visited the distressed areas in the northern coalfields. To the Mayor of Durham he expressed, with obvious emotion, his opinion on what he had seen during his lour, lie said; “I have been deeply touched by the bravery, patience, and hope of all flie.se poor people. Jt is very difficult to know what to do to solve this most pressing problem. I am sure, however, that things will lie righted, but I am afraid it must take time. The people I have met during tbit tour could not have been nicer to me.” A TOUCHING INCIDENT. LONDON, January 31. (Received February 1, at P 2.13 p.m.) ‘‘Surely Ibis is bedrock,’’ said flic Prince of Wales when viewing the hovels where the unemployed miners were ,surrounded by hare-fooled children, Nothing appealed so deeply and impressed the Prince more than the squalor of the miners’ houses. There was a touching incident when, amid a crowd of workless af Jarrow, a sightless old woman pleaded: "Just let me touch him.” The Prince of Whiles overheard fhc remark, and asked (he crowd to make a gangway so that he could shake hands with her. lie inspected a party of Durham boys who arc going to Australia. He said: "I am delighted yon are going to New South Wales, and wish yon Iho best cf luck."—Australian Press Association.