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PIERCED BY RODS Inquiry Into Death Of Mrs. Anderson
"The sad circumstances of the Christmas Day tragedy on the Palace, where the scar- treasures of art. As one sees it Cabinet; and as they grow old in Castle Peak Road when Mrs. Ger- looming behind the gilded gates their posts, they become the re-trude Ella Anderson last her life, State secrets were related yesterday when Mr. let, blue and gold of the at the head of the Mall, it is a positories of more
But than are known to anybody else C. Kennedy Skipton, opened an in- royal
standard flies large and silent building.
its silence is deceptive, for it is in the realm. Other members of quiry with the following jury.s— against the gray skies the home of the monarchs at its the household handle the King's Messrs. F. G. Barros (foreman). varied business affairs, or are re-W. C. Tillery. Ir., and Lam Hew- of London. For this an- daily work.
There was a time when the ponsible for the complicated cho. The hearing was adjourned. State processions, Dr. G. H. Henry said that Mrs. was due to 忽 Duty Paid. Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. z. 1957. cient building draws to-
gether all of the multi- royal household transacted the which, however medieval they Anderson's death
domestic affairs of Kings and the
lation of the brain. On the right farious activities which public affairs of the reaim as one may be, are always timed as ex-fracture of the skull and lacer side of the nose, he said, there same thing radiate from the King's and the
a wound about two inches affairs have gradually study and the royal of the parent trunk, and Legacy
long, its track passing" through (the bones of the face and the base Both Mr. Eden's outline of household.
are administered by a huge and Of Queen Victoria
of the akull in a slanting direction Britain's foreign policy and
Other capitals have more im- much less picturesque institution
Įtowards the left ear. The brain Berlin's response follow strict pressive royal palaces. The known as the British Government. ALTHOUGE today Bucking
ham Palace is the focus of was badly lacerated and a skull ly conventional lines, revealing great Hofburg in Vienna is so The royal household has remain-
The to el responsible for the King's do every great national occasion, itbone near the ear fractured once more the sharpness of the much more impressive as
has not always been 30.
In answer to the District Of dividing line between the make London seem to be al
palace site was
open countficer Dr. Henry said that death Anglo-Geraian approaches to most without a palace. Wind-
when James I set out his mulberry must have been instantaneous as the problems of Europe.
sor Castle would more than
garden there, with silkworms in the wound was in a vital part. Mr. Eden makes his appeal match the immense Hofburg, for sanity almost directly to but Windsor is not in London;
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Windscreen Broke
it to produce silk for the royal bosiery. The silkworms were not a "All I knew was that the wind-
even-wife met her death.
Wilhelm its ancient fortified
hilltop strasse quite naturally takes its rises some twenty miles up the mestic affairs, and these are ad- success, but the mulberry trees screen suddenly broke," said Mr. variety of grew into a sylvan retreat which John Edgar Anderson, who was own angle of vision, points to Thames. Buckingham Palace is ministered. by 1
Charles II the puerile mishandling of post- ne more than the town house officials ranging from the poet became a fashionable resort under driver of the car in which his the He said that after fin On war diplomacy and insists that of the British monarchy, but laureate to the veterinaries at the Stuarts.
Every tradesman tually gave the garden to if any country has the right to it is very impressively set. demand indications of sincerity Made For
who supplies goeds to the Ring owner of a big house adjacent to Christmas Day he and his wife. and so displays the royal arms it, and this house, after various accompanied by Mrs. M. W. Bren theinan, went for a drive along the one of the Dukes of Castle Peak Road. They reached with "By Appointment" above his adventures. was sold with there is reasoning. We do not
door, is, in theory at least, a mem- garden to imagine for
The approach, the long straight ber of the interminable rural Buckingham who rebuilt it in 1703 the 10-mile post and then retura- a moment that
and named it Buckingham House-ed.
This was the forerumer of the Passing through Tsan Wan vil- Germany doubts the very earn boulevard known as the Mali, was household. est desire of Britain to bring made for royal pageants. Along-
modern palace. George III bought lage, said. Mr. Anderson, he sZN fretful side the Mall the lawns and lake Purely
it for use 25 an unpretentious a stationary lorry parked on his appeasement
family house, moving into it in left ahead of him and another lor- Europe and to throw her whole of St. James's Park sweep up to
ornate white and gold Decorative
1763, but continuing to use the ry, carrying iròn rods, coming to- weight on the side of a sane the
palace for his court functions. In station
to
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solution of pressing difficulties. memorial to Queen Victoria. OME of its members are pure much more historic St. James's wards kira on the other side of the
SOME But Germany takes umbrage at Just beyond the memorial, the
"The road was wide enough for the inference which is allowed long east front of the palace rises, institution in the world involves cidentally. St. James's Palace is to be drawn that Herr Hitler with its outer gates sentineled by
George IV converted the house said, and there seemed to be alone holds the key, and parti-red-coated Guardsmen and the 30 much standing about in pic still the official seat of the court only two cars to pass abreast he turesque uniforms as the institu- cularly at the suggestion that royal standard whipping from the tion of royalty. Others are both into a royal palace, but died be room for me to pass the stationary 2 democratically controlled flagstaff on its roof.
decorative and useful. On oc-fore it was ready to be occupied, lozzy. Just as I had passed it Germany would automatically It looks like a new palace, and casions of State they appear in and it was young Queen Victoria the windscreen of my car sudden- throw herself into line with Bri- in fact the east front was refaced gorgeous gold-braided uniforms who first made it her London sest ly broke. What had happened I
large and called it Buckingham Palace did not know" tish policy, whereas the Nazi about twenty hve years ago. The with cocked hats and a regime is but the source of ordinary passer-by would never gold key on their belts at the nightmares in Mr. Eden's know that there is a large back (sometimes lightly referred
Shipping Men
household
quadrangle behind the east front, to as the key of the wine cellars), Here is to be found the crux for passers-by are not allowed to and with wands of office in their far as we can see, the situation into the quadrangle, as they are cues. But this is not the whole of is without hope until and un-in the great palace in Stockholm. their duties. less the nations of Europe It is within this quadrangle that climb down from their respec-Buckingham's
of the problem of to-day. As wander through the gates and hands which look like billiard On China Coast
State entrance
Struck By Bod Mr. Anderson said he stopped įhis car immediately and asked his wife if she were all right, but
she did not answer. He then got out of the car, turned to look in the back seat where she had” | been sitting, and found that the Bringing into its pages mem-hood had been torn off and was ories of some of the most famous covering her. The end of an
tive pedestals and endeavour to trusts out its portice. Within the turesque dress than their as shipping men of the China Coast.iron rod was projecting from her
marble-
that
Still others have no more pic-
uniforms, and these they wear in- examine it honestly from each main doors, a spacious
in the last century and of more face. frequently. Their picturesqueness
He pulled the rod out and other's point of view. At pre-columned
hall leads to the
a few minutes later was joined lies in themselves rather than in modern times, a history of the old sent. Britain and Germany are white and gold grand staircase their dress, for they are the fu- Mercantile Marine Oficers A380 by several Europeans, including on entirely different planes laid with a crimson carpet and shed products of the military ciation, the existing M.140. Ca doctor, who said his wife was Neither has a right to expect a bordered by full-length royal por tradition, with the rigidities and Merchant Service Club has been
In Shanghai and the intervening dead common basis for discussion traits. This stairway ascends in
At the time of the mishap, said without a realistic understand-broad shallow steps
to the State loyalties which belong to
produced in an interesting volume Mr. Anderson, he was travelling peculiar tradition. They are at ing of the peculiar circum-apartments whose magnificence
about 10 miles an hour, and the stances motivating each other's begins with the Green Drawing able and aloof, courteous and dis-
once affable and discreet, agree by Mr. S. S. Kemp.
Many names appear, but it hasjlarry about 20. actions.
Room, next to the Throne Room.
tant, with a more than ambassa- been deemed advisable in some in- Sgt. James Scrim, of the Water *
the lorry dorial genius for tactfully evade stances to disguise them, though Police Station, said ing the direct question.
nicknames have been retained and was loaded with iron bass, about 40 ft. long, doubled into lengths These Olympisa. beings are the correct initials. much more than merely decora- The book contains much infor- of approximately 20 ft.
Projecting Rods JUCKINGĦAM PALACE is tive In those departments of the mation of historical value to mer
One of Mr. Eden's reminders
was perhaps necessary. There The Royal can be no comfortable doctrine
Bunch more than a vast re- household which are closest to the cantile marine officers and tour They were projecting about
of a Western European glass- Household house, as it were, and his direct statement that Britain has a deep interest in the integrity of Spain and Spanish posses- sions did not suffer by reifera
tion.
Significant, too, is the re- markable change which latter-
ly has come over the language
of diplomacy. It may have
sidence stuffed to the bursting King, they handle his
contacts ous anecdotes, both humourous five feet in front of the body of point with State apartments and with the Prime Minister and the and otherwise.
MISS DENISON OF FEZ”
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the truck, four feet behind, and on one side, about eight inches over the side.
On the end of the rods in front of the lorry he found a piece of canvas, similar to the material in the hood of Mr. Anderson's car.
Anderson's The hood of Mr. been observed that only once, MEZ, ancient capital of Morocco, whiteness of moonlight, especially of all its citizens. When the and then in connection with built on two hills sloping to Inorth African moonlight, the flat French occupied the town, andjear was completey torn off, con- The hood British rearmament, did Mr.wards each other, apart from the roofs spreading out in their thou-when later they underwent severe tinned Sgt. Serim.
fighting to hold it, Kiss Denison stanchions were twisted, the Eden refer to the League of European quarter, is one of the sands is a view that startles.
Nations. Apparently the day rabbit-wazren towns of the world. To descend into the streets of was as safe as she would have been windscreen bent backwards, and has come when it is no longer Looked at from the roof of the Fes is to go back into a land of in far-off Ireland. She is a native the glass in the windscreen shat- necessary to refer to our ob-mai Palace, it is a sea of white the Arabian Nights Entertain- of Hollywood, County Down, and tered There were, however, no ligations under the League roofs, with 120 minarets sticking menti. Here around us seem to came here with the North African marks of collision on the body. Covenant. Is the wreck of the: up into the sky, a wonderful view,be all the familiar characters. But Mission. League, too, recognised as a with the snow covered Atlas mount the same time we feel the city Three times a week she has to
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MRS. T. HIRAOKA Death Of Local Japanese Lady
tains in the far distance. It is is closing in on us, and it is not) shut her door at 7.30 in the mora- city where old traditions linger, possible for a stranger to proceeding after admitting seventy to where students come from far off more than a couple of hundred-eighty Arab women, who have towns and the desert to study the yards in the narrow winding al- come with their children for treat- The question of the accuracy law of the Koran. At all hours leys, for they never become what ment in the dispensary. If the Practically the whole of the local of historical films is engaging the tints change, the lines sharp we know as streets, without being door were not shut at 30 Miss Japanese community, with many
No motor car some public attention, and in and masses white when the sun is lost.
can pass Denison could never get through Chinese and other friends, gathered connection with it one member high at midday, turning to pinks through the native quarter, not the day's work. As she tends at the Japanese Crematorium, last of the House of Lords has ask-land bines towards evening. In the even an ordinary horse carriage them she tells the story of Jesus. evening at the cremation of Mrs. ed "What is history?" The
enquiry has a certain appro priateness to. December's
Often the houses are built right Conversions are few, for the T, Hiraoka, who died at her re- across the street overbead, and at Arab is so enmeshed in the reli-sidence in Granville Road at the other points matting shuts out gion of those around him, but at age of 43.
The exterior means least these women know that ten- The Inte Mrs. Hiraoka, wife of events. As regards formal his be well pleased also, for they the sun. tory; it is doubtful whether any will be able to invent all man nothing to an Arab, and we get a derness and love are associated one of the wealthiert Japanese re- series of events of first-class im ner of stories about what real-sensation of something squalid, un-with those who believe in Christ. sidents in the Colorry, had for portance in our history has ly went on at Fort Belvedere ta suddenly an open door shows a Once an old aegress, who in child-some months been suffering from been so completely "document in that fateful week. Already glimpse of a Moorish mansion, with hood had been sold as a slave, lis-2 serious aiment, but her stidden ed. Not often, for instance, is a "secret" tone is proving its mosaics and courtyard and tened closely to what Miss Denison passing came as a shock to a barge a. Minister able to be as frank useful to them The philoso-splashing fountain.
was saying. When she had finish-number of friends who held her in
and detailed as was Mr. Bali-phic or psychological historian A strangely familiar English ed, the negress came to her and the highest esteem. Deep sym win in his account of his vari-will have a task dear to his Letter box catches our eyes, he said, "Will you please say all that pathy is felt for deceased's hus ous communications with King kind when he comes to deal guide knocks, and Miss Denison to me again. I remember and band and children, five of whom Edward; there historians will with the press and crowd rese- herself opens the door. Is this here a bear stale down her black are in the Colony,
beautiful be able to move with sure tons to the affair. But who rabbit-warren dty the little Irish chicek "my-Lather used to read A kürge number steps. On the other hand, shall decide which is writing woman has lived for forty years. that to us out of a big black book floral tributes were sent to the writers of "secret history will "history"?
She is perhaps the most belovedla white man gave him.”
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