THE HONGKONG
THURSDAY, TELEGRAPH.
APRIL 29,
1937.
CORONATION IN LESS THAN FORTNIGHT
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Most Brilliant
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL SEE CEREMONY
LONDON, APR. 30.
IN 12 DAYS FROM THIS DATE, KING GEORGE VI, 39TH MONARCH OF ENGLAND, AND HIS QUEEN, ELIZABETH, WILL BE CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
It will be the biggest and costliest pageant in Eng- land's history.
On May 12, sightseers from all corners of the British Empire and from most nations of the earth, whose view- points will have cost them £1,500,000, will watch the great gold statecoach, drawn by eight-harnessed, cream-colour- ed horses, go by from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, and back again,
Along gaily-decked streets, on sanded roads, through tumultuous cheering, it will ride in a glittering procession of kings, princes, sultans, envoys, statesmeu, famous regiments and milltary bands.
In the brilliantly lit Abbey, a privileged concourse of 7,700 will participate in the historic coronation ceremony, a ceremony dating from unknown monks in the 14th century.
Schoolchildren will have a holiday, and it will be a bank holiday. for the crowds, which will be larger than at any previous national rejoicing.
There will be warships, "floating hotel liners and festooned luxury yachts in the Thames; all-night milk bars in, the parks; flood-lighting on the most ambitious scale ever at Lempted; dances, teas and carnivals in working-class streets and open spaces.
Children, aged people, bind, un- employed and poor will receive money gifts.
Forelin guests will be entertained to a long round of banquets, slate balls and royal garden parties,
Special coronation coins and coro nation 10 stamps will be issued.
Zero hour for those who want a good view is the evening of May 11. By midnight the six-mile long pro- bessional route, with seating accom- modation for half a million, will be well lined, and milk bars and long buffets in the parks and behind the stands will supply the hungry with all-night meals,
Eighty-five thousand spectators will occupy 27 miles of seats in three miles of silver-grey and scarlet stands put up by the Office of Works at a cost of £70,300, and sold half cost price-128. an uncovered scat, and 10s, a covered seat.
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Privileged oceuplers will include 1,800 members of the co-operative socletles, members of the fighting services, holders of the Victoria Cross, medallists, pensioners velerin fighting men.
and
152 FOR SEAT Other not-so-lucky onlookers will have paid anything from £5. 4s. to
£52 for their seats.
Hesters of houses and apartments on the route will have a good view at a cost ranging from £2,000 (a peer's house for a month) to 2000 (an apartment for two for a month), and £300 (a private room with balcony, for six people, meals with champagne thrown in).
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The long ceremony will not be over until 2.30 p.m. Peers will be wear- lng 10-pound uniforms; the peeres-. ses' white and crimson velvet robes, some of them 200-years-old looms, will weigh ten pounds
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The Queen will wear a gown of deep vary while duchesse satin, em- hroidered in gold thread with an emblematle all-over design, and robe of royal purple võlvet, lined with ermine. 1fcr 18-foot train will need the support of eight attendants.
lined with
The King will wear a robe of cloth of old, embroidered with coloured emblems, and white satin,
Princess Elizabeth will Little watch the ceremony, sitting beside Queen Mary, in the Queen-Mother's box. Elizabeth will be wearing miniature robe and coronet,
Among the guests in the blue and gold abbey, hung with heraldle designs and tapestries and covered with soft carpet, will be:
King Christian of Denmark, King Boris of Bulgaria, King Haakon of Norway, King George of Greece, Princess_Juilana of Holland, und Prince Bernhard,
In History Of British
Decorations erected in Victoria Street, London, for the Coronation.
each
coronation, will be lined with 32-made to the blind, and there will be
parts of the an extra allowance of 2s. for outdoor] 500 troops from all British Empire, and garlanded with relief recipients and 1s. for thounds of pounds worth of water-fchild. proof decorations.
St. John Ambulance Brigade will
duly 60 on
surgeons, 500 offleers, 5.000 non-commissioned have olvers and men, 105 nursing officers, London will be and 1,400' alsters. gay with:
50 MILES OF BUNTING Fifty miles of bunting, thousands of flags, roadway islands of white, blue and gold; banners, streamers, stand- ads and festoons in red. Jade grec garter blue, gold und white, sweep- ing from side to side of the road, or draping the sidewalks; flowers, coloured aprons and flags on govern ment buildings.
Crown Prince Michael of Rumania, of the Prince Chichibu, brother Emperor of 'Japan,
The Emir Saud, son of the King of Saudi Arabia,
Astaou Wosan, eldest son of Haile Selassic,
The Emir of Transjordan, Poles-
On Victoria Embankment, canapled line,
green, 37,000 London King Yeta 11, paramount chief of in red and Batotsiland, native reserve in North-County Council school-children will
watch the King and Queen pass. ern Rhodesie,
Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign commissar,
Dr. K'ung Hsiang Hsi, Chinese finance minister,
A special mission from the Pope, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden,
The Count of Flanders, brother of the King of the Belgians,
The Prince of Preslav, brother of the King of the Bulgarians,
Crown Prince Frederick of Den- mark,
will All-night subway trains run to take this army of a million alghtseers, including 180,000 overseas visitors, to the scene of pageantry.. At midnight police will uheck the entry of automobiles into the Corona- tion aren, extending from Maryle- bone road to Grosvenor road, and the King from Kensington Gardens to Ludgate Hill. Motorists will be gulded by
Prince Mohammed All, prince re- gent and cousin of the King of Egypt,
Crown Prince Paul of Greece, The Amir Abdul Illah, uncle of
of Irak, Prince Jean of Luxembourg,
Martha, of Norway, Prince Chula Chakabongs, cousin Abbey guests-nobles, baronets, of the King of Siam,
Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf knights, bishops, judges, statesmen,
Soon after their arrival at Buck- ond ingham Palace King George Queen Elizabeth will appear on the balcony-in-their-robes and crowns, to acknowledge the cheers of the multitude.
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Cannes, Apr. 27. FRANCE'S Surete (Scot-
land-yard) are inquir- ing to-day into a mysterious intrusion into the suite of Colonel Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, living for the last two months in a Cannes hotel.
On Saturday night, Mt. Calka, high Polish police official guarding Colonel Beck, found that his room had been searched.. Every document in pri- vate despatch cases and in drawerS had been taken out and appeared to have been scrutinised thoroughly.
Poland's Ambassador to Berlin, M. Lipski, who arrived at Cannes three days ago, said to me to-day: "We❘ are not sure yet whether anything has been stolen."
A telegram from Marseilles, say- Ing: "Uncle dead. Come at once for funeral," which one of the waiters In the hotel showed to the manager on Saturday when he asked for Saturday and Sunday off was to-day examined by the police.
Secret Of Old Age- "Smile"
Vienna, Apr. 21. The secret of longevity is held in two words "keep smiling!"
GIFTS TO CHILDREN..
There will be: A gift of 2s. for
every In- sured unemployed person and is. each young dependent child for
(cost £100,000).
Free current for municipal food-in lighting schemes given by the Lon- Schubert songs. Electrical under- don-Associates takings.
A day's holiday for a day's pay if they work) for the 79,000 workers employees of the of the London Passenger Transport Board, and for railroad "Big Four".
This is the upshot of experiences, told by four healthy nonagcharians
this city of waltz, wine
and
Bernhard Wald, 94, the Nestor umang Vienna's lawyers, still starts his day with a lusty song, to his own delight and to the disgust of hus family and of his neighbours.
In contrast to all hygienic rules, he cats meat three times daily and No leave for a week for metro-smokes like a chimney; for more than sixty years his average dallý quota politan police.
A week of gala broadcasting by was 18 to 20 black cigars; since about ten years he has somewhat reduced his tobacco consumption. the B.B.C.
Brailled Coronation programmes for the blind.
Floating hotels in the Thames accommodating 10,000 visitors.
Hundreds of railway-coach-cam- pers pitched around London.
Food tickets for dinners at some hotels to prevent "storming".
A Post Office savings bank-book and £1 for babies barn in Acton on Coronation Day.
of trees
from the
The ancient windmill at Mount-
10.000 signs; pedestrians by coloured frown Prince Olaf, and Crown Hall, the Mansion House, and Broad- | nessing, Essex, will be acquired as
mapa.
empire and foreign representatives, Crown Princess Louise, of Sweden, Seit ol Islam Hussein, son of the members of Parliament, Civil Service chiefs and heads of national life will King of the Yemen,
Prince Paul and Princess Olga, of Yugoslavia,
Count Dino Grandi, Itallan Westminster by representative.
have to be up early, too, The doors close at 9 a.m.
Some of the 1,500 peers, peeresses
am-
an
one
A little horseback riding and moderate hiking were his sports, and he still has his daily little walk.
Once in his life he was ill; for two days he suffered from tummy ache following a heavy meal on his 85th birthday.
Wald still claims to possess all of his natural teeth.
any
and dowagers will make a pictures-bassador to Britain, Mussolini's only { with coloured lights, flags, bunting marquees in the parks will be open prominent musical composer, who
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visit Scotiand
The main Ilfe-prolonger, however,
resembles the
In the evening the King will broadcast to the Empire, Colonics and dominions will contribute to the B.B.C.'s special coronation night
Coronation opera A ten-weeks"
Rejuvenation? "Ask me again on Pamme, and dance music will
till 1 a.m..
season by Sir Thomas Beecham, my 100th birthday," says Wald.
Thousands of acorns Scores of buildings will be floodlit
His life rule was and is: carly to Paluce, St. Royal Park, Windsor, planted in: James's Palace, Big Ben, Westmins-
shaped groups including Buckingham
planted you want to reach my age, young ter Abbey, the Royal Mint, Admiral- Very part of the Empire, and shield-bed and early to rise, plus fum. ty Arch, Nelson's Column, the Houses throughout Britain in commemora- man, don't miss a laugh where you
can get it," he told an interviewer. of Parliament, the Tower of London, tion.
County Hampton Court Palace, the
Dr. Leopold Ehrenhaft, Vienna's oldest physician, enjoys perfect health Coronation memorial.
with 1 years. His prescription for and
about Worry casting House.
floodlit, and The Home Beet,
CORONATION BABIES
a long life is "don't be and dressed overall, will
to open
yourself!" Babies born on Coronation day at
His favourite dish was and still is and destroyers and Hutton, Essex, will receive sightseers in the Thames-battleships near Pool,
anony-boiled beef. He smokes and drink off Southend, submarines in London
guinea each, from mous local resident. Flood-lighting beer and has never practised London Bridge,
In the drab little streets in the of selected buildings will continue sport.
brightened until Whit-Monday, May 17. Twelve Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria's most working-class districts, and streamers, open-air tea parties, all night for the benefit of sightseers.
celebrated his 90th birthday recent- at races, songs and dances will be held. Street decorations will remain in
27-11 keeps himself by wine VOICE OF CONCOURSE
place until midnight, May
luncheon and beer in the evening. FOR MANY DAYS
they last. START AT 1030 A.M.
The ceremony starts with the
the The day following their corona- More than 50 bus routes, served plus a daily walk of 50 minutes. presentation of the King by At 10.30 am, the procession starts Archbishop of Canterbury; and the tion will be the start for the King and by 2,500 buses, will be completely from the Palace.
The brilliant cavalende, including voice of the great concourse acclaim- Queen of a long round of lunches, reorganized. Instead of the normat in his opinion, is a happy marital life. # ring of 19 special Turkish patriarch Zaro Aga, who an escort of Life Guards and Yeomen ing their King will be carried to the banquets, receptions, sinte balls, routes across central London, they In this respect he
waiting
crowds on the stands and to royal garden parties, courts, investi- will run to of the Guard, several foreign millions of listeners the world over. tures and levees. They will attend terminals within the Coronation area, ascribed his longevity to his marry- the alleged age of 157, was about to monarchs, six sultans, 14 European Four tunes the cry "God Save King the naval review at Spithead, and First bus: 5 am. Trams and trolley-ing habit, and who, when he died at
and Wales. Their buses start 4 a.m. and Eastern princes, Dominion pen George will be raised.
take his 17th wife, while Kienzl still SUBWAY FLOWERS Again will come the shout "God May programme includes:
enjoys marital bliss with his first miers, home and foreign statesmen.
May 13: State Banquet. will proceed in three processions to Save the King", when, towards the
Friday, May 14:
Dinner by the Ships of the navy will be dressed love. the West entrance of the Abbey by end of the ceremony the crown is
At mid- the Foreign overall ond illuminated.
Alexander Demetrius Goltz, 92, way of: The Mall. Admiralty Arch, placed on the King's head. Nobles Foreign Minister at
al Buckingham day all ships will fire a Royal Salute
prominent painter, considers a cheer- Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parlia at the same time will don their Office. Court ball
and grog will be issued to the comful mental disposition the best wea- ment-street, St. Margaret's street coronets, drums and trumpets will Palace. and Broad Sanctuary.
Wednesday, May 19; Drive to and panies. sound and guns at the Tower of It will be a two-miles long pro- London will boom.
Home troops will wear their smart pon against infirmity. He suffers lunch at the Guildhall.
trics to think as little BS possible cession, and will tako 40 minutes to
Thursday, May 20: Naval Review. blue "walking out" uniform. Troops from occasional attracks of gout, but After this, the King, enthroned,
Monday, May-24: Empire Day from overseas will camp in Kensing about his age and his allments. will receive the homage of the peers, pass one point.
ton Gardens, Regent's Park, Hamp Grected by a fanfare of trumpets and the Queen, attended by beauti-service at St. Paul's cathedral.
Tuesday, May 25: Dinner by the ton Court, Olympia Stadium, and at the Abbey entrance, the King and fully robed Ladies of the Bedcham- Queen will pass on to the Corona- ber and Maids of Honour, will be Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Primrose Hill.
Subway stations will be decorated tlun theatre down a processional way crowned. covered with a blue chenile Axmins Then the doors of the Abbey will
Thursday, May 27: Evening recep-with red, while and blue flowers.
On the evening of Coronation Day, ter carpet 173 feet long and 17-fcot ba flung open. Wearing their tion by the London County Council.
All London boroughs will celebrate films of the procession and Abbey wide, woven in one piece,
crowns and robes, and carrying their
be ceremony will be shown in all big For the first time in the abbey's sceptres, King George VI. and Queen during the week. There will history telephones will be used to Elizabeth will step into the state sports, fairs and fireworks in open cinemas in the country. They will control the processions and the ser- coach and drive into the streets for spaces; floodlighting of buildings and be distributed over Britain by air. BRITISH vice. The scene will be filmed, pro- the acclamation of their people. The of park flower beds; teas, concerts Ace pilots will set off on the same children; free day to race across the Atlantic with bably in colour.
route back to the Palace is by way and souvenirs for
And here is some of the finance of Concealed loudspeakers will am- of Broad Sanctuary, Bridge street, meals, entertainments, parcels and newsreels. plify tho 400-years-old service Victoria Embankment, Northumber- money gifts for aged people.
side of Schoolchildren will be given copies the Coronation; throughout the abbey, and it will be land avenue, Southern
Cost: £454,000, costliest corona- relayed to crowds along the route. Trafalgar Square, Cockapur street, of the official Coronation programme, Service and procession will be broad- Pall Mall, St. James's street, Pic-blographies at the King and Queen, tion on record.
Preparing Westminster Abbey and ONE evening recently Mr. Winston cast by
the British Broadcasting cadilly, Piccadilly Circus, tegent silver plated inscribed spoons, mugs
beakers. For some there will annexe and putting up slands: Corporation, and expert foreign street, Oxford Circus, Oxford street, and commentators will describe the scene Marble Arch, East carriage road in be free cinema shows and pocket £15,000, to the world,
Hyde Park, Hyde Park Corner, by money. All will have a holiday until St. George's Hospital in Grosvenor May 18, SIX HOUR CEREMONY
London county council hospitals, place, to Constitution Hill and Buck-
resident schools, remand homes and Abbey guests, in priceless Jowels Ingham Palace.
The processional route, nearly casual homes will have special fare and magnificent uniforms, will be-in their places for five or six hours. twice as long as that at the previous and entertainments. Gifts will be
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short afternoon nap has contributed largely to keep him fit and capable for work, he believes, He continues to smoke and drink with moderation.
SEEKING DENTIST
LION
Churchill delighted a group of friends with his flashing wit.
Here is an example:
Royal household' expenses, in- cluding entertainment of royal and
I am always being told it là about other visitors £100,000
London County Council's celebrat-time, the British Lion showed his teeth; and I repis, "Not before ha Lions; £41,700,
Westminster celebrations: £25,000, has gone to the dentist."
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