THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 8, 1937.
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HISTORIC EMPIRE GATHERING
WESTMINSTER HALL
AT
King's Speech To Dominions
Premiers
LONDON, TO-DAY.
LITTLE GIRL GROWS
NEW LEG
Operation Saved Nine- Year-Old From Amputation
A nine-year-old girl is making surgical history at the Metropoli- tan Hospital in London by growing THE KING YESTERDAY ATTENDED A LUNCHEON a new leg. Famous surgeons GIVEN BY THE UNITED KINGDOM BRANCH OF THE EMPIRE gathered around PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION IN HONOUR OF THE cussing the "miracle."
The
are
FIRST PENNIES OF
NEW REIGN
ו-
SMALL ISSUE TO THE BANKS
GOOD LIKENESS OF
THE KING ·
have
Pennies of the new reign been issued by the Royal Mint to
her bedside dis-the joint stock banks. A first im- pression is that the head of King
· DOMINION PRIME MINISTERS AND MINISTERS AND OTHER
George VI. is a good and pleasing DELEGATES IN LONDON FOR THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
little, fair-haired patient, likeness and that it stands out in AND THE EMPIRE PARLIAMENTARY ASSOCIATION'S CON-Ella Hunter, was admitted to hos-bold relief. -FERENCE.
pital suffering from an injury to Just below the neck are two let- the leg nearly five months ago. ters. "H.P.," so minute that they She had been hurt while playing can scarcely be read with the nak and examination disclosed that her ed eye. They are the initials of Mr. thigh bone was infected by a deadly T. H. Paget, the portrait modeller, bone disease.
to whom the King gave a sitting at Christmas, and whose design accepted.
Replying to the loyal toast, His
to
Majesty said: "I am delighted have an early opportunity of wel-
coming my Prime Ministers and NEW MOVE IN
other ministers from overseas, as well as so many representatives o the several Parliaments of the Em-
COLONIAL
pire. This is an historic occasion. CAMPAIGN
It is first time a Sovereign has been present at a luncheon in West- minster Hall to meet those who represent the Legislatures of the Empire.
WORTHY SETTING
EXHIBITION AS PROPAGANDA
“DEMAND MUST
SOON BE FULFILLED”.
Surgeons found the bone had wasted to a pulp and amputation seemed to be the only normal cure. But a brilliant English surgeon de- cided on a daring experiment.
was
On the reverse, 'designed by Mr. Kruger Gray, there is a light-
G. Kruger
house to the left of Britannia. This is a partial concession to a large He removed completely the bone-body of public opinion which would. shaft of the femur from the hip have liked to see restored the light- joint to the knee. He left behind house and the ship in full sail, as the thin tissue which covers the on the pennies of the middle years- What worthier setting could be.
actual bone. Infinite skill was of Queen Victoria's reign imagined than this ancient hall
needed, since, had the periosteum, Britannia has appeared on the which has been at once the scene
or tissue been injured, the leg would copper coins since the reign of and the silent witness of so many
A German colonial exhibition is have been lost. But the diseased Charles II but it was not until much stirring events in the history of being shown and moved from town bone was taken out and the outer later that the ship was introduced. the Parliament of this country to town in the Reich.
covering which has bone-forming This was not, however, a part of Here have grown up the principles Mr. R. T. Smallbones, the British properties-left intact.
every design. which form the bulwark of the sys-Consul-General, was among those
In 1860, when the lighthouse was tem known to us as
first included, the ship was restored to its old place. Both again dis-
parliamentary present at the opening:
government. Those principles have
Sleeping Hen
Here is the true story of a hen which went to sleep on the running-
known.
the
DOS-
Slowly the periosteum began to form cells, which multiplied, cal-
examined the
been carried by the people of our The official speech delivered by cified and knitted themselves to appeared from the later pennies of race to the ends of the earth. They Herr Bickendorf,
provincial gether. Ella Hunter was growing the Queen's reign, and this is the German a new leg. Each week the surgeon first time for over 30 years that are now the heritage and pride of leader for Hesse of the all parts of the British Common-Colonial League, asserted that "there anxiously
X-ray either of the emblems has been used wealth of Nations-British Wire is no longer a colonial problem, but photos of the leg. He could do no
on our coinage. less.
only a German colonial demand, more: it was Nature's turn.
Britannia's Shield which is a just one and must soon be And Nature finished the work. A study of the coin in closer de- fulfilled." Germany, he continued, had Now the little girl, after 19 weeks tail will show that the shield em- the cleanest hands of all the Euro- in hospital, has a brand new femur bossed with the Union Jack, which pean masters which Africa had firm, straight and strong.
Britannia is holding, is turned at "In about three weeks Ella should a slightly different angle from that ""This Year"
be able to leave the hospital," said shown in the coins of King George Dr. Krebs said he fervently hoped the doctor. "We expect she will V's reign. This is in conformity board of its owner's motor-car and that the present year would bring be normal in every way, able to with the custom that the head of was taken
an unexpected ride the fulfilment of Germany's just walk, run and dance.
each succeeding monarch should into the nearest town and then back colonial, demands. It was, he said.
appear on the coinage facing in the home again.
"The success of this experiment coins of King George V., while Bri- a gross injustice to leave Germany, means that amputation may be un-tannia's flowing robes are a little Late on a windy evening Mr. with her 360 inhabitants to the Wallace Skinner of Duke's Farmd, square mile, without colonial
necessary in many similar cases. less elaborately draped and fall over But we believe that the experiment the shield in a slightly different Bungay, Suffolk, jumped into his
sessions.
would only be successful with child car and drove his daughter the mile
way. The figures of the date are. and a half journey into Bungay, Return of the colonies was án patients.”
larger than those on the pennies of where she was to spend the even-urgent necessity, which could not
1936. ing.
depend on the grace or benevolence
His Majesty's head is facing to- while on the left, of the entrance, When he arrived at his destina- of other Powers. It was a matter flanked by the old imperial colonial wards the left the same direction tion Mr. Skinner found that Police of honour and international
flag, stood a bust of the Germany's reign. This is in conformity as the head on the coins of George Constable H. Symonds wanted to morality.
colonial explorer, Dr. Karl Peters. have a word with him. The police
with the custom that the head of Germany did not want colonies as officer pointed out a Light Sussex crumbs from the table of the man-
Clever Displays
each succeeding monarch should ap- hen sitting on the running-board on datory
pear on the coinage facing in the Powers. She demanded The exhibition has been organis-reverse direction. the driver's side of the car. The them as a vital necessity, for the led by Herr Huebner, the young bird was sleeping soundly.
Had any coinage been minted dur- Fuehrer had said Germany had as leader of the propaganda section of ing the reign of Edward VIII. the much right to live as other nations. the Colonial League. It is cleverly King's head would have been shown
conceived and drives home with con- looking towards the right. traveller, Herr Bohn, of Berlin, speaking on siderable effect the German argu- On the obverse side the inscrip- in the back behalf, of Gen. von Epp, the Pre-ments in favour of colonies.
tion is "GEORGIVS VLD. G: BR: sident of the League, who was not present, justified Germany's right to Large placards ask the question, OMN: REX F: D: IND: IMP.'
co- The corresponding inscription on quell rebellions in the past. She "Why must Germany possess
lonies?? They answer it by alleg-the George V. penny was: "GEOR- had as much right as "another
Ger-GIVS V DEI GRA: BRITT: OMN: Power" had which recently marching the over-population of ed six regiments against, rebellious
statement which contrasts REX FID: DEF: IND: IMP" The many- A curious thing has happened at mountain tribes.
curiously with present propaganda reduction from 38 to 28 letters has Burnham in' Buckinghamshire,
for an increased birth-rate and with enabled the inscription to be pre- where Mr. Alf Williams has
passed Colonial veterans in khaki uni- admissions away.
forms and wide-brimmed hats form-grations that no substantial emi-sented in much greater boldness and
be expected. It is also distinction He was 61, and died from
anted a guard of honour, Opposite a urged that the development of Ger- On the reverse side there are just accident 40% years ago, when, as a picture of Herr Hitler, "protector" man industries requires colonial raw the two words, "One Penny.” young
of 21, he was shot. The bullet remained fixed and did
The real passenger having alight- ed, and gone her way, Mr. Skinner popped the
still sleeping
of the car
drove it home.
BULLET KILLS AFTER
40 YEARS
of
"
harm, but then it moved anderman colonial movement, products and that Ere yoniRes 15 AGES O
ed him.
cross with a tablet bearing the allegation that Germany is small number of these coins words, To the German heroes a bad coloniser should be repudiat-issued probably not more "buried' on German soil overseas,
few dozen to each bank.
than
was
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