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Statistics show that in this part of the world there are more sufferers from tuberculosis than from all the other diseases put together.
The only way tuberculosis can be controlled and in time, its incidence lessened, is by making it known to the masses that early discovery and modern treatment can effect
a cure.
That the work of the Hongkong Anti- Tuberculosis Association" is causing many thousands to become conscious of the danger to which they are exposed was very clearly indicated during the period of the recent Anti-Tuberculosis Exhibition when more
than
60,000 PEOPLE
visited the Anti-T,B. Association and," saw for themselves what havoc this grim disease can cause.
Many have come forward for examination and where necessary, free hospitalisation to the limit of the accommodation available. Tho-assistance" afforded is governed by the
means,
THE CHINA. MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1958.
Lady Grantham
APPLES
will be eaten AT 11.20
SIXTEEN years ago today the
late King George Vi was crowned in Westminster Abbey, and among the vast and noble tarong present at the ceremony were His Excellency Sir Alexander Grantham, present Governor of Hongkong, and Lady Grantham. In the article below, Lady Grantham describes with а wealth of colourful detail the historic
scene of pomp and beauty, it is a scene that will be repeated with the " same magnificence and solemnity on June 2 of this year when the coronation of Her Majesty Queen- Elizabeth the Second takes place..
We
indebted to Lady Grantham for this vivid description of the most unique event in the history of
· British monarchy.
are
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The CORONATION
T
an
By MAURINE GRANTHAM
who witnessed the historic ceremony sixteen years ago
nisio were filled with this brilliant company.
Picture
as with
tho
HIS memorable day,
cessional way-Their Majesties allegiance... and the final the 12th of May,
the King and Queen were fanfare of trumpets and roll 1987, did not even
There was a feeling of ex coming.... The gleaming Cross of drums and shouts of "God begin in an ordinary pectancy that there was to of the Abbey borne before the Save the King."
And now the Queen was to be
We manner. To be breakfasting come something more splendid Dean was followed by the
Imagined the. at the unusual hour of six
even than the beautiful scene proudly awaying standards of crowned.
as she moved. just finished. A short pause- India, South Africa; Now Zen- radiant picture o'clock, dressed' as if for the Western Door was thrown hand, Canada and Australia, beautiful ceremony; as she knelt. through the well-nigh incredibly Court,Alex in white satin
open, and
members of the and finally the Knights of the for her anointing under the knee-breeches, dark blue Royal Family who were to be Garter, who were to hold the
golden canopy upheld by the cont heavy with gold braid, a part of the congregation Canopy over the King at his Duchesses of Norfolk,
Rutland, a jewelled sword at his side, were escorted to their places, anointing. Then camo Mr Buccleuch and Roxburghe: us, she received the and I in white lace with the Next followed the Royal Baldwin, Mr MacDonald and still kneeling, three Prince of Wales representatives and guests; a the Dominion Prime Ministers, Crown of "Glory, Honour and resplendent procession, with the Archbishop of York, and movement of white arms rising one xquisite feathers fastened in hair, gave
exotic Frince and Princess Chichibu, last the Archbishop of Canter out of red velvet, the peeresses
on their Princess Juliana, smiling and bury, his white satin robo put
coronets atmosphere.
instruc- happy. accompanied by her worked all over in gold and Sceptre and the Ivory Rod with Having followed
the Dove being placed in her tione as to the route our car husband: the Crown Princes gilver
hando: as moving and
The shout of the West Sacrarium ahe, made her obel- Princesses of Norway,
across the was to take to Westminister
Denmark and Sweden.
minater school boys, "Vivat aance to the Abbey from the house in St.
King-her Ladies John's Wood where we were
the final Regina Elizabetha," was heard, doing likewise--and and there appeared the Queen's staying, we arrived at the
of the King and Queen or their and seated Abbey at seven o'clock
Regalia, followed by the Queen crowned and
now remained were ushered to our seats in THERE were Mr James W. herself. She came with quiet thrones....There the Nave. From that hour Gerard and the United dignity, wearing an exquisitely only the service at the Com
during which, the munion, until the moment when the States
ne embroidered white satin gown "Gloria in Excelsis" was sunt Representative,
by Gonoral magnificent diamond necklace and the King and Queen Ihelt last of the procession passed companied out through the Western door, Pershing; there were. Indian and other jewels, her long to receive the Benediction.
Cabinet and sometime after two o'clock in Princes,
x train awaying in the hands of the afternoon, there was not a Cabinet Ministers in Privy six duchesses in diamante-
dress, Mr An- studded white satin. moment when we were con- Councillors'
Eden, Sir Samuel
expectant scious of anything except the thony
After another
FTER a short interval, thera beauty and grandeur of the Hoare, Sir John Simon, and hush again there burst forth A was
another flourish the Ambassadors in residence the triumphant "Vivat Rex trumpets, and the procession scene about us.
in London.
Georgius," and the King's passed before us once more. The congregation was now Regalla came in view-then This time, the little Princesses. THE haversack ration for nearly 30,000 Servicemen
their golden crowns, Who will wake up at 5 a.m. to take part in the VEN at the early hour of complete, and there were to the King, looking very young Elizabeth and Margaret, wear-
hand-in-hand come only those who were to and slim in his crimson robe walked our arrival, there was a Coronation Day programme will be:-
have an actual part in the cere of state, his great officers in
front of their grandmother. stream of peers and peeresses
monies.
their shining mantles around Queen Mary, looking happy, making their way up the Nave
Again there
was an ex- him. One felt grateful that smiled and bowed to right and to their seats in the Transept. The peeresses looked patrician pertant pause, and there came they were there, for it seemed left. Queen Elizabeth in all her and charming with their ermine trimmed, outspread their tiaras crimson trains, and necklaces flashing in the light, while one caught glimpses of
on C Day
(It's all in a big book)
1 Apple
1
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Cheese (spread) roll 1 Portion fruit slab cake.... 1 Ment roll
1 Barley sugar ... Bar milk chocolate
They will get these haversack rations at 11 a.m. while the Queen is in the Abbey.
They can start eating at 11.20, take 20 minutes over their haversack meal, and there will be another 20 minutes In which the rubbish can be cleared away.
Bo by noon, half an hour be charged for all mess meals, too, fore the nation walts to rejoice whether eaten or not. The cost: In unison when the Queen is 1. 9. day. crowned at 12.30, the
troops There will be nothing will be fed and ready for ab- mechanised in the Coronation other four or five hours' duly. Day processions--so the Army is It is all in the book-the 128- faced with the problem of look-
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lustrous satins and fames of the gowns he neath their robes. Each carried her coronet which gave
a delightful effect. The peers in their amplè robes of velvet and ermine mada the all the more They will be slabled mainly i peereases look worked out to make Coronation in Hyde Park.
dainty and graceful." Day us smooth-running
page red-covered book of Army ing after 230 horses,
have been
Instructions that
text-book military operation.
Two weeks' pay
daily
The British horses wil need lally 7b, of oats, 31b, bran, 10lb. hay, and Gib. peat for Each
horse.
But 40. Canadian horses (which the Canadian Mounted THE orders of Field-Marshal Police will ride) seem less The Viscount Alanbrooke, partial to bran. They will get Commanding Coronation Troops, only 2ib, a week. cover everything from the Ume that 031232 Private Blogg, S. the time heads for London to
that he clears up the last of the
It's all in the book.
The signal
ND so to the arrangements!
Hitler and goes back to barracks. AN
Coronalon Troops will for THE DAY when 42
The
start arriving on the Thursday double-decker buses will line up
bafore Corona-
tion Day and
they will all have to be in London by the two Sunday, days before the event. They will
all have Iwo
weeks pay bệ
fore they start.
by. JAMES BARTLETT
a.m.
miles to town.
signal- Army
Jers
All. watches
will bu synchronised with B.B.C. time.
Besides these, of which thero seemed to be a never-ending stream, there were other dis- tinguished guests, all richly dressed. We thought particu- larly handsome the sweeping mat handa the Order of
Chivalry of the Star of India in a beautiful shade of azure- blue satin embroidered with the great gold star.
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The purples and scarlets of other orders,' satin and velvets, gold braid and lsce, the uni- at Clapham Deep Shelter at 6.30 forms of the Army, Navy and to bring Air Force officers and the 3,000
billeted lacquer-red robes of the judges, sallors three glowed liko a rich tapestry, An interior view of Westminster Abboy, during the Coronation of King su13JF
the Indian highlighted by
George. VI, showing homage bring paid to the `now monarch. 4. bar buy clad in costly 30 potentates, with
of radio sets and 19 Eastern stuffs
woven the glittering procession of the such a heavy burden that was magnificence, with her ly
Bishops one on either side and loudspeakers for threads of gold and silver, Regalia, which was delivered about to be put upon him. public address, their fabulous jewels sparkling into the keeping of the Lord Everything was now ready preceded and followed by her
retinue, amiled at the Westmins take will
Great Chamberlain. UP In profusion.
During for the actual ceremony. Where ter boys as their, cheersicang The time it takes to get 30.000 positions at 10 points along the
this procession the Litany was we sat in the Nave, we could out. men settled into. London for Coronation route.
# Bung. Soon followed the not aco what was taking place, Then came the King, and their first night has been work- ed out by the War Office on this
ALL
climax of grandeur was figures wore Princes and Princesses of the but we could hear, and the the baris:
moving in A perfect Blood Royal: Princess Mary, music was so expressive that reached. Wearing the perial
ablaze with BEVENTY men can put up
Precious 210 beds in an hour.
At 8 am--with all the troops setting; for how graciously with the little Princesses we could imagine the whole Crown
We could feel the stones, the Black Prince's-ruby, tho up along the route the did TEN men can 11 400 pallasses lined
ancient church Elizabeth and Margaret Rose scene. itself signallers will start testing, and lond with straw in an hour.
this his on either side looking very solemn hush of the moment Edward the Confessor's It's all in the book. And the they will keep it up every half torlo
ceremony of high tiny and serious, their small before the Archbishop placed the Star of "Africa
diamonds, straw is already piled up at the hour till 0950,
pomp and gemmed magni- trains exact counterparts of the Crown upon the King's York's sapphire, and
carrying supply depot in Kensington
Then, everybody will watch cence. The stone walls of the that of the Princess Royal, head, hear the sound of the and the Dr, He walked with Gardens.
the Duchess of, silver trumpets and the
noble bearing, his great purpio for the signal from the officer Abbey were hung in blue-and- Then came and three men waiting at the gold brocade, broken only by Gloucester and the Duchess of triumphant shouts of "God train bome by a poor and flight Queen Victoria
Memorial, the finely carved stone and Kent, their coronets and trains Save the King." Then, through pages.
As the last gura › passed-out opposite Buckingham Palace. stained-glass windows. On the borne by ladies and gentlemen the stone walls of the Abboy who THE administrative troops
As soon as they spot that the floor a thick blua carpet made of the Court, followed by the came the muffled sound of the of sight, I felt the reluctaber and are being brought in to get
a perfect fall for the colours King's great-aunts and cousins, pealing of belle, and the faint, experiences on awaking from a things ready for the Coronation procession is about to start off
far-away, booming of the great wonderful dream. I turned to and our eyes-một but no Troops will have one compensa from the Palace, they will put and fabrics of robes and all likewise attended. tion for their background job, up a red and white signat disc. uniforms and gowns,
bound....Nothing for..not being in the procession The signal will flash to the con- or on the route. They can bring trol station at the Horse Guards.
memory of the reblour their clvvles to London.
brilliance, the rich fabrics and fabulou the sculptured
THE
Compensation
The Coronation Troops must bring only their No. 1 dress or clvilion best batficürens,
clothes for them.
No
March I
to
TAMARAST TAHT
There was another, short guns of the Tower of London Alex,
words come; .+wakvat The King was crowned! D erase from our
was here that the Arch- Jewelled windows
speil
ever
This pageant of auch sein, interval before the entrance of firing their salute. tillating brilliance gave one a procession of greater splen the feeling of being "in" an dour than any that had gono Long Live the King!.. Arabian Night's fantasy, ox- before. Proceded by the Queen cept that everything had a of Norway and her retinuo very real and definite meaning, came "Queen Mary, regal and
We realised that each person gracious. She was superb, but who presented the King proportions of the The men who must sleep in TURST man in the procession,
stnice Kensington Gardens
Colonel B JO, Burrows, was there because of his poal with the recollection of the in a bed will have compensations will make a move. The Queen on, and each had his or her loss she had lately suffered with the Bible as the most church; of the lood and personates who had too. If the weather is warh Victoria Memorial signaller will certain place. Even the clothes tears of sympathy sprang to valuable thing the world ther
affords." The King then, and dignity on this great and they will be allowed to bathe holst a blue and white flug. in the Serpentine Lido.
All the signal stations will hoist worn meant something-the the eyes.
Occasloys A fanfare of trumpets received the Homage; the salcma It's in the book...
blue and white flags... the length of a train or the colour There will be no boot repairs loudspeakers will broadcast of a mantle and all these sounded throughout the Abbey. Archbishops and Bishops and of the chain that links® foyda
In the
AR wore only the guests or specta-. We rose to our feet. The day the temporal lords, beginning is Empire. A
through the haircut facilities During this Annual Appeal, pleasD
Coronation camps but there twice: "ProcessionMARCHI” will be a tailor to mend alight The procession will be on its torn who were to make up the light from the high windows with the Dukes of Gloucester God's being was als
congregation........... Finally all seemed to brighten as it fell on and Kent, followed by the
plored, which GIVE THAT THEY MAY LIVE tears or put a bullon on.
Officers will not be providia Way ... at 112 paces (of soins.) | had arrived, and the tiers of the golden chandeliers and sentor of each rank of the guidance and proWVCIACH
seats on either side of the lighted the centre of the pro- peerage swearing fealty and be withheit
Cheques should be crossed and addrengd:-- “"HÖNGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION"
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a minule,
with batsmen. They will bo
It's all in.
the
book.
With easing
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