KING AND THE WORKERS

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 155, 3 July 1917, Page 2

KING AND THE WORKERS

; . - LONDON, June 20. Th<> Kmg n,nd Queen, are touring ■ "■:, the 'shipbuilding yards and industrial ' towns on the T«es, the Wear, , the - TPyne, and tha Humber: They have been, loyally and spontaneously -wel- .'; -corned. No barriers were erected, and the crowds,were .permitted to freely jingle with their Majesties, who , *hook hands and conversed witli hundreds of ship and munition workers md blue-trousered munition girls. The King, was impressed with the wonderful shipbuilding activity. All «:• of ships to naval standard, merchantmen, and submarines *u;e "bejng rapidly constructed.