The King has paid- another visit—his 'fourth---to -the Western Front.
-This time he- was accompanied by the -Queen, who during the ten- d0g4 spent. in France and Belgium visited ttlargenurriliezof hospitals and Institut ons in the Lines of Communication area. The accounts furnished by the special correspondents show that the King's was no perfunctory tour, but a long.journey, with frequent halts for the thorough inveatigation„not unattended with risk, of the scenes of some of the hardest fighting in the whole course of the war. The King has been on the battlefields of theSamme end of Messiness he has stood with the General of the Canadian Corp., on Vimy Ridge, and looked down on Lens and the-German lines. He has reviewed Labour battalions of South African natives and Chinese, witnessed the exploits of the tanks- and been for a trip in one of those strange monsters: He has, in fine, given one mom proof of his intense personal interest in the welfare of his soldiers and hie appreciation of their hero is services—duly conveyed in a stirring Order issued on his departure from France—and justified the tribute paid hint recently by the Prime Minister as one of the hardest-workers in.his dominions.
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