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' MANX HOMECOMING '

on Regional Programme Northern

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Welcome to Canadian and American Manxmen returning to the Isle of Man
Commentaries on the arrival of s.s. Athenia in Douglas Bay and of the Homecomers at Victoria Pier
Speech of Welcome by His Majesty's Attorney General and Richard Cain
President of the World's Manx
Association with a reply by Senator Mullius of Ottawa
(An electrical recording of this morning's welcome ceremony)
It has been estimated that some thirty thousand Manx people are living in Canada and other parts of the American continent today. About seventy of these are coming home for the Coronation and the homecoming will be the occasion of great celebration.

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Richard Cain

Regional Programme Northern

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Regional Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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