GPU Head Jailed
KING
THE CHINA 1
ATTENDS CORON
"SOLEMN AND
SERIOUS:" FOUR
TIMES CROWNED
London, To-day.
The King and Queen, unheralded, attended a rehearsal of the Coronation ceremony in West- minster Abbey yesterday afternoon.
The King was wearing a lounge suit and a bowler hat, while the Queen was wearing a dress and coat of palest biscuit with a narrow brim straw
According to reports from London, hat trimmed with tiny pink roses.
the latest Soviet celebrity to be ac- cused of plotting against Stalin is Genrikh G. Yagoda, former chief of the dread OGPU, the Soviet secret police. Yagoda was dismissed from his post as Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs and is reported to have been thrown into prison. He is said to be accused of fraud.
Those two glorious singers, Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Mac-
donald (above) are returning to Hong Kong in “Maytime,” which,
according to advance reviews, is their best film to date. It comes
to the King's Theatre to-morrow.
QUALITY PRINTING
WITH
PROMPT SERVICE
Tho-
ter Enterprise-
Limited
Mail"? Building.
}
THEIR MAJESTIES WERE RECEIVED AT THE EN- TRANCE TO THE CORONATION ANNEXE BY THE EARL MARSHAL, THE DUKE OF NORFOLK.
he seemed
The rehearsal lasted over two, in the very least nervous during the hours and was attended by over ceremonial, though 400 notables, including the Prin-solemn and serious during the cess Royal, Viscount Lascelles, actual rehearsal.-Reuter. the Archbishops of Canterbury
and York and five bishops.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT The King and Queen took part
During the rehearsal the King in a rehearsal of part of the Coron- wore his royal robes of crimson ation ceremony in Westminster Ab- velvet over his ordinary day bey yesterday afternoon. The Prin- clothes.
cess Royal joined their Majesties at The actual crowning of His the Abbey and among the high offi- Majesty Was rehearsed four cers of State who also participated times, and the Archbishop of in the rehearsal were the Earl Mar- Canterbury, with assistant shal, the Duke of Norfolk, the Mar- clergy, went through the cere-quis of Zetland and Lord Halifax, mony and placed the dummy -British Wireless. crown on the King's bare head. The Queen's crowning was not rehearsed.
SOLEMN AND SERIOUS › The pages who carry the King's tmin rehearsed their part as did the various other dignitaries
who carry the regalia.
It is said the King did not seem
JA!
Ben Foord, former British heavy- weight boxing champion, was unhurt when his car was badly damaged in a collision at Desborough, near Market Harborough.
A policeman patrolling Church- street, Camberwell, found а human skull lying inside the railings of St. Giles' Church.
HOME DELIVERY
of the new 1937
VAUXHALLS
If you are going home on leave, this will interest you. You can arrange now to step ashore at home and drive away in a new Vauxhall.
We assist you in this connection without any trouble or complication to yourself
delivered to you at home
and subsequently in Hong Kong.
Catalogue & Full Particulars from
HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
Stubbs Road..
Bringing Up Father.
MAGGIE INSISTS ON: GOING TO THE OPERA TONIGHT-I- GUESS THERE'S NO USE ARGUING -
Phone 2777879.
-I'LL GO SEE JOE JIP, THE TICKET SPECULATOR- HE MIGHT HAVE TWO GOOD SEATS-
The home front in the Spanish civi their thousands took over jobs formerly the working in a Basque coal mine as most of t
UN
Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-Gen Better known as the novelist, John: E ly call on a President of the United Robinson, Vice-President Garner, Lo
TWO GOOD SEATS WILL SET YOU BACK $32.50 APIECE IN THE 32ND ROW THEY'RE NEXT TO DINTY MOORE-
3.2
Copr. 1937, King Features Syndicate, Inc., World rights reserved.