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OLD ANGLO-AMERICAN WOUNDS THEIR MAJESTIES’ GESTURE (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Deceived June 10, 0.45 a.m. WASHINGTON 1 , June 0.
Their Majesties to-day, to show how completely healed arc the old wounds, at 1.45 p.m. placed a wrettih on Washington's tomb on Mount Vernon. Similarly a tribute to America’s Unknown Warrior was paid at 3.25 p.m.
Despite rain overnight a repetition of yesterday s enervating heal is promised. Their Majesties’ first engagement is a meeting at 10 a.m. of British residents at (he British Embassy.
Among the ex-servicemen who will be parading is included Dr. B. S. Hutcheson, tin American who won tin* Victoria Cross when lie served with the 75th Canadian Battalion.
Later Their Majesties will visit the Capitol and greet 00 Senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives in the rotunda directly beneath the great white dome, Their Majesties being placed so that they tin not see the large painting of the Earl of Cornwallis surrendering Yorktown in .081 to Washington.
This is the act which marked the end of the American rex'ol ut ion.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 162, 10 June 1939, Page 9
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