DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
DEPARTURE FDR AUSTRALIA TO JOIN SUSSEX AT MARSEILLES (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, September 3. (Received Sept. 4, at noon.) The departure of the Duke of Gloucester to-morrow on his official visit to Australia will be private and informal, but representatives of the Dominions Office (including Mr Thomas) and Mr Stanley Bruce, will attend the aerodrome where the Duke takes off on the first stage of his journey to Marseilles, where he will join the Sussex. On his way to Australia the Duke will call at Colombo (Ceylon), where he will hand over the throne of the Kings of Kandy, which has been kept at Windsor Castle since ISIS, when in response to appeals from Ceylon, the-King pf Kand,? .was dethroned. ‘
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Evening Star, Issue 21816, 4 September 1934, Page 7
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