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Title: Westward with the Prince of Wales

Author: W. Douglas Newton

Release Date: September 25, 2009 [EBook #30082]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Transcriber's note: This book is an account by a British journalist of
the cross-Canada tour, by train, in 1919, of Edward VIII, British
Prince of Wales. In 1936, Edward abdicated from the British throne to
marry Wallis Simpson, an American divorcee.]

[Frontispiece: H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES]

WESTWARD WITH

THE PRINCE OF WALES

BY

W. DOUGLAS NEWTON

AUTHORIZED CORRESPONDENT IN AMERICA WITH

H. R. H. THE PRINCE OF WALES

AUTHOR OF "GREEN LADIES," "THE WAR CACHE," ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

NEW YORK LONDON

1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

TO

"A. B."

AND THE CARGO OF "CARNARVON."

PREFACE

It was on Friday, August 1, 1919, that "the damned reporters" and the
_Times_ correspondent's hatbox went on board the light cruiser
_Dauntless_ at Devonport.

The _Dauntless_ had just arrived from the Baltic to load up
cigarettes--at least, that was the first impression. In the Baltic the
rate of exchange had risen from roubles to packets of Players, and a
handful of cigarettes would buy things that money could not obtain.
Into the midst of a ship's company, feverishly accumulating tobacco in
the hope of cornering at least the amber market of the world, we
descended.

Actually, I suppose, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales had been
the first interrupter of the _Dauntless'_ schemes. Lying alongside
Devonport quay to refit--in that way were the cigarettes covered
up--word was sent that the _Dauntless_ with her sister ship, _Dragon_,
was to act as escort to the battle-cruiser _Renown_ when she carried
the Prince to Canada.

Though he came first we could not expect to be as popular as the
Prince, and when, therefore, those on board also learnt that the honour
of acting as escort was to