KING AND QUEEN LEAVE TRAIN

Southland Times, Issue 23828, 27 May 1939, Page 7

KING AND QUEEN LEAVE TRAIN

Brisk Walk Along Railway

RECEIVED BY RECORD CROWD AT REGINA

FAMOUS POLICE BARRACKS VISITED

(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) REGINA, May 25.

Shortly before 10 a.m., a few miles west of Broadview (Saskatchewan), the King and Queen ordered the Royal train to be stopped and with a few members of their suite they took a brisk walk for a mile along the railway right-of-way, says the special representative of the j Australian Associated Press. The King J was without a hat and in tweeds, and the Queen, in a pink frock with a coat of light wool. Both were obviously delighted with their surroundings and invigorated with the fresh prairie air. The Queen’s eyes sparkled when she noticed that the King and his equerries had drawn ahead. “Let’s catch them up,” she said, and broke into a run, her startled ladies-in-waiting following suit. The Queen rejoined the King, laughing and slightly breathless. During their brief departure from their programme the King and Queen made the acquaintance of three Canadians who otherwise they would not have met—a prairie gopher, a small burrowing ground-hog which the Canadians tell gullible visitors is their buffalo, a Canadian meadow lark and a small bird called a phoebe. The Mayor’s top hat was apparent when the King and Queen arrived at Regina, where hundreds of families in buggies and lumbering wagons had trekked to welcome them, as the sowing of the spring wheat had just been completed. Regina was able to boast a record crowd of 80,000. \

The King and Queen were doubly welcome throughout the Mid-West, as they brought rain with them. Falls of up to five inches have already been recorded.

Despite the drizzle at Regina the King and Queen ordered the hood of the car to be lowered. Their programme included a visit to the barracks which were the headquarters of the Royal North-West Mounted Police for 40 years after their establishment. Upon the famous force being reorganized as a nation-wide instrument of law and order and upon its being renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the headquarters were moved to Ottawa.

“LASTING PEACE MAY EMERGE” OPINION OF U.S. MINISTER TO CANADA (Received May 26, 5.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, May 25. Mr Daniel Roper, the new United States Minister to Canada, told the Canadian Club that lasting peace may emerge from the Royal visit. “It is already assuming a symbolic aspect,” he said. “I doubt whether anyone can properly apprise its full significance and benefit. Maybe this visit will touch people everywhere in a farreaching manner, thus pointing the way to lasting peace.”