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Colony's A SON FOR PRINCESS ELIZABETH
Message To The
Mother And Child
Princess Both "Doing Well"
When the guns of HMS | Sussex boomed out at 8 o'clock this morning marking tho birth of the royal baby, Hong- kong became all agog, and 15 telephone enquiries wera Hongkong answered by the Telegraph during the next 20 minutes.
The office's telephones continued to ring throughout the morning. almost every caller putting the same question, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
HMS Bussex fred a 11-gun salite to signify that the child was a boy, and at 10a.m. it was officially an- nounce that His Excellency the dovernor bad despatched thes following telegram to the Secretary of State for the Colonies;
"On behalf of the people of Hongkong I respectfully offer heartiest congratulations and good wiches to Her Royal Hlġimes tho Princess Elizabeth on the birth of a son."
HM ships immediately "dressed" in honour of the occasion.
However, it was announced by the Naval Authorities this morning that the proposed fireworks display for tonight has had to be cancelled because the escort vessels are out on manoeuvres..
Five Killed In
Car Accident
the the
ROYAL BIRTH
TIME
THIS
AT 5.14 HK
MORNING
London, November 14-Princess Elizabeth gave birth to a baby boy today. Both the Princess and the baby boy are reported well. The child was delivered at 9.14 p.m. (5.14 a.m. HK Time). An official Palace announcement said: "Her Royal Highness, Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, was safely delivered of a Prince at 9.14 p.m. today. Her Royal Highness and her son are both doing well."
The King and Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh remained in the palace through the early evening. The quiet crowd waiting patiently in mild weather, numbered over 6,000 at 9 p.m. Sir John Weir, physician to the King, visited the Princess this morning. He returned hurriedly at mid-evening on the advice of Sir William Gilliatt, the Princess's gynecologist.
The police informed the crowd of over 6,000 of the birth. They sent up a tremendous chéer like an American football cry which was heard inside the palace's thick walls. The crowd did not know of the birth until the Police in- formed them vocally some minutes after the palace official announcement when not a glimmer of light shone through the heavy curtains of the Princess's room on the second floor where the new prince was born.
at
The general alert was "given to the Palace" staff and servants
разаса 7.30 p.m. GMT. All
staff members who were absent teft their telephone numbers and were im medlately summoned.
The ometal announcement of the birth was released, shortly after the arrival of Sir Alan Lascelles, the King's Secretary, First to learn of Manila, Nov. 15.-Five person the birth was Prince Philip who was waiting in the adjoining room. two men and three young women-
The King and Queen, wearing even- were killed early Sunday in the
ing dress, were wailing with him accident In warst motor-car
The Queen embraced Philip and the of residents along memory
King shook his hand warmly. concrete Tagaytay highway south of
Meantime, in the room where the Manila. The lone survivor, a man child was born, the doctors made escaped with minor injuries.
and determined their examinations The six were returning to Manila
that "the mother and child are both when their from Tagaytay City speeding car swerved of the rand near a turn-and hit a huge tree. stump with terrine impact. The car was completely destroyed and bodies hurled in all directions.
the
A First Lieutenant of the Con- stúbutory was among
the dead. United Press.
EDITORIAL
well.
The
on each of dozens of overseas cables and "they were sent out within a minute. The first call outside the palace went to the Queen Mother, Mary who was waiting at nearby Marlborough House. Another calf was placed for Princess Margaret at Sandbeck, Park, Yorkshire, the horne of Earl and Countess of Scarborough [ where the Princess spent the week- end. Queen Mary hurried to the as soon as she heard the
palace news.
the
LORD MAYOR INFORMED Telephone calls were put in ime of mediately for other members the Royal family, including Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and the Duchess of Kent,
call
also By tradition, placed to London's Lord Mayor, should receive the who officially, Prince first news outside the palace of the
event.
broke
was
Sir William Gallatt and Sir John Weir emerged from the conference room together and told
Philip: "It's a prince."
The palace announcement machinery notifying the world then started into operation. Just in time to catch the tail end cast. The an- Sir Alan Lascelles
the of the BBC news ordered
foliowed im- was single word "prince" to be filled in nouncement
mediately by the playing of the national anthem.
Banning Of Raffles
THE Authorities have decided
THE
to
public
two b'n on place a sweepstakes--the annual
St Vincent de
one organised
V School for
nalsin funds
to date have
for
Paul 'ruffle
to
had to cancel and
by King Georgs
the
putting
purpose
of
market.
for a plano—aste
the
TVO
on 710
the pubile
that the organisern would be even merc had embarrassed than if they
the raffles before tickets
the real sce
this Justification for
p*rticular ban, although we unhesitatingly acknowledge the right and duty of the Authorities to fact
suppress In
Inw gambling where it becomes of the
that it
menace to the morals and livell- into
hood of the community. doubt.
živen no realoli
the action. They possess
the power,
of course,
their interpretation
so precisely correct
called
is not be Nevertheless the sudden in- sistence on protecting the publle from this form of gambling
not likely
On
ما
be over-popular. the public the contrary these mild
flutters and tolor they like to know they are, at
sime
time, Supporting
the
deserving causes. Moreover, the protest instantly
the
mind that
leapa
to
it is morally Bound to
to permit hure 'sweep- stakes on
specfied pony ruces, there can be no objection on the same grounds against raffles conducted
by reputable organ!- tion. It is because there
moral dialiration 110 apparent that the public would like to precisely why tho Fotola
banned two Authorities have. raffles. The bona fides of thosZ
them
be cannot Organising questioned. The raffle conducted the St Vincent do Paul Society has for many years been highly popular and ran In scrupulously fair manner,
while
the very names' of the sponsors of the school ·ražio zuarantees Interrily. Why, therefore,
should ... - Government.....
interfere wholly Innocent (methods of raising fande for rood causes? It is an ection made...all the
færitating more -booniese it -haa:⠀ boon
taken long Fattery: the Brafiles • days been started," leaving the impression that the Authorillen delber toly walted for them to be offered.
The Royal Birth
B
of
of BRITAIN and
the rest of the world will rejoice today over the news that Princess Elizabeth has borne a son and heir to the throne, thus not only fulllling the hopes of the entire Commonwealth. but also the Princess'a confident prediction. The people
Join Hongkong with others in expressing their warmest felicitations to Princess. Elizabeth an ker
husband in their happiness. To the mother the Commonwealth 'country and the birth
Carries special signl- ficance, for the young prince will one day become Prince of Wales and a potential sucocesor to the throne.
will be his disting ne. It ion to restore the male succes- the British monarchy. stori to Thanks to preparations made by the Navy
Hongkong allowing the historio birth to Gun salutes and pace unnoticed.
displaya other
will mark the event, but we think the Government could also give the occasion an official · blessing, by at least awarding the school. children aholiday.
For the children of today who will probably
ses the young prince amume bis kingly duties in years to comb and thus they will enjoy a special link with today's celebrations.
today
The pressure of the crowd outside the palace was so great as Queen Mary drove through the gales in her private car that the police were forced to shut all the gates.
A long line of cars stretched
all the down
roads outside blocked from palace, was
ap- proaching closer by the swelling crowds. United Press.
The birth came six days before the Brst anniversary of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip, at Westminster Abbey, November 20, 1947.
As the Princess had her first-born child, the King and Queen, became grandparents for, the first me, and
Mary became `n great-" Queen grandmother.
the
..
A recent picture of l'rincess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, now the proud parents of a 80-
their firstborn.
De Gaulle Prepares For Showdown
GAINS POLITICAL STRENGTH
Paris, Nov. 14.---General Charles de Gaulle to- night prepared for a Parliamentary showdown battle with France's middle-of-the-road parties next week.
The General's 19-month-old rally of the French People, after a sweeping victory in France's upper elections a week ago, will enter the new Council Republic on Tuesday as its greatest single party. Its avowed tactics will be to hamstring all Government logislation in the hope of forc- ing M. Henri Qubuille' shaky coalition Cabinet to quit and call general elections for a National Assembly by which General de Gaulle is confident of being swept back to power.
Voting for 24 seats representing France's West African and Equatorial
The Princess had wanted a boy and said she was sure she was going to have one. The King had wanted to go to Sandringham, her Royal country estate near the East Coust for the event. The Princess aid she wanted her boy born in the Palace which one day would be his. First election raturns
Cutside the sprawling Palace, Middle Congo In French Equatorial to Britain's Africo, gave two out of three scats around the memorial
Victoria, test ruling
the contested on General de Gaulle's queen.
themselves Union of the French People's Party. waiting crowd shouted hoarse."
Long before-the-baby-was-born,- Philip nnced up and down the long and lonesome corridor ko nervous father.-United Press.
any
TRAINING FOR KINGSHIP London. Nov. 14.-The child that was born in Buckingham Palace today may one day sit on the Throne of Britain.
African Colonies took place Today THE BERLIN
from
the
DISPUTE
Madagascar, Powers To Study Lio-
› Evatt Proposals
BUNCHE'S ORDER TO JEWS
Paris, Nov. 14.-The United Nations mediator, Dr Ralph Bunche, today ordered the Tewish forces to give up their newly-won Negov desert bases by Friday or face possible sanc- tions, but the Jewish answer was a flat no.
Mr Aubrey Eban, Jewish delegate to the United Nations, said: "The answer of Israel to the UN demand to sacrifice tho Negev will be solidly and uni- mistakably negative."
He expressed his stato's doler- mination 10 bypass the United Nations and settle directly with the Arab countries.
"We've sought such negotiations in the past. Wo would welcome. them now."
Dr Bunche outlined the boundaries of the demilitarized "No Man's Land" which he said was ordered yesterday and directed both Israel- and Egypt to Pull
out their. forces by November 19 or face possible sanctions.
However, Mr Eban told the opening session of the international conference on Jewish relief here that his government was determined to resist any tempering with frontiers. He said the right of the UN to change Jewish borders by pushing the nation's armies back
newly-won from
territory Was "strictly
limited
Israel's by novereignty."
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE
Mr Eban sold: "It is an obvious and self-evident truth that the ter- ritories of Israel cannot be modified without Israel's consent. That is the fundamental principle should dominate the
General Assembly's discussions."
which
.was
Although Mr Eban was speaking outside the UN, British sources said he saw the new boundaries fixed by Dr Bunche before the plon dispatched to Tel-Aviv yesterday.
"It is the business of the As- sembly to work for peace and not for far-fetched territorial im-
every that passes, our resistance
determined .and more promising d
provisations..
With
week grows
-30
com- Elections for another il Coun- cillors, representing
"Final, determination of frontlers Pacific Islands, French India and
between Isract and its neighbours Saint Flerre and Miquelon, will be
in a proper matter for negotiations. held on December 19. In the mean-
between Israel and its neighbours. time, France's Lower House National
Paris, Nov. 14-Britain will We have sought such negotiations Assembly will name the final eight
tomorrow that the in the past. We would. welcome Upper House Members representing propose
them
now." French real-three Western powers should. Mr Eban denounced. British policy French Morocco and dents abroad.
i
meet here on Tuesday to discuss toward Palestine and called attempla From the moment it is old enough
BROTHER AS LEADER
the Lie-Evatt appeal for a new by a "certain government" to detach to think, the training of a future Monarch will begin. From its very
effert to solve the Berlin dis- Jewish-controlled territory "sinister and utterly reactionary"-United General Charles de Gaulle himself pute, it was learned here today. Prey nursery days the child, first to bo
to the is not a member of either House, the born in direct succession
CONVOY WAITING Mr Hector McNell, the Minister of Throne since the birth of the Duke and the RPF leadership in the Coun-
Haifa, Nov. 14-The first convoy of Windsor in 1804, must be educated cil Republie will be taken over by State, is returning here to represent of consciously for the public service his brother, Pierre de Gaulle, Mayor Mr Ernest Bevin at such a meeting of non-military supplies for the en- circled Egyptians at Fakuja and Iraq of Paris. The de Gaullists planned with Mr which before it.
Les
the George Marshall, American Secretary of State, and M. Suweidan in the northern Negev Soon after its first faltering steps to put Pierre de Gaulle up for can- EARLY LONDON SCENES
Nations London, November 14-Thousands, it will receive its first simple lessons didate for Council Repubile Presi- Robert Schuman, the French Foreign area is ready to leave Gaza.
cording to senior United persons milled silently tonight in the extra courtesy which is the dent, but they are waiting today's Minister.
The British view is understood to observers' reports received here. around Buckingham Palace where first social duty of the British Royal African elections before taking the
Israell Family.
Ils departure awaits the final decision.
be that the position taken up by the all was in readiness for the birth of
from the acting than the No one knows better
message three Foreign Ministers in their reply to Princess Elizabeth's baby "at any
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister, child's mother, that the upbringing
communique of October 17-that the Mediator, Dr Ralph Buncho, naking hour."
from M. Henr! Queuille is fighting hard Berin matter is one for the Security the Israell authorities to allow the From carly morning the crowd of of a future Monarch differs
world. to pull together the shaken third
passage of the convoy. Council-stili stands. royalty-loving Britons swelled about every other child's in the
When Princess Elizabeth was ten force parties in preparation for the
has interrupted the Mr Lewis Douglas, the
Bad weather United the Victoria Memorial in the centre
and n half, her "Uncle David" coming showdown. His first action
Statce Ambassador in London, who United Nations air communications
and Holla. of the huge circular plaza before the abdicated from the throne and she is expected to be to accept the du has arrived here, will see Mr Mar- between Beirut
Two palace.
became Heiress Presumptive to the signations of Yvon In the early London dusk. more Thrond. From then on, her educa- Foresto, Secretary of State for Food shall and the Berlin question is one American destroyers based in Halfa and Alain Foher, Secretary for of the main points they will discuss, Boy for patrol duty with the "United tion became specialised. than 2,000 persons still remained.
Economic Affairs, both Five hundred or so pressed close to
of whom according to usually reliable sources, Nations have left for the high seas-
Reuter. defeated In the
(Continued on Page 5) Coun the grill fence of the palace court.
were
·ell Republie Elections. The yard. Another 500 clambered about but
national council of their party, the the marble memoriar
Catholic Popular Republicans, the settle down for the night. The reat against breaking the tradition, that chief victim of those reigning queen, apparently ready to
elections to- day, authorised the two men to resign.
that M. It is expected
Cabinet Queui}lo would ask other Members to double in their jobs,
of
were in the roadway,
Extra police, were on hand, but their main duty was
to caution motorisis against sounding
their
horns
There was nothing to see except soldiers of the Middlesex Regiment London's own outht-marching stify back and forth on guard duty, From timo to time, the London Bobby cleared a path for the sen- try's march.
TENSION IN PALACE Inside the palace, everybody was fenso except Princess Elizabeth.
She lunched quietly with her Edinburgh husband, the Duke of and the King and Queen. Shortly after, the Duke, drove paince by the side gate.
*palace
staff was mobilised. Several times during the afternoon, the crowd outside' saW members of the staff gathered at the small attic windows locking out on the mass of phenomenon not extra- | ordinary in London, putn
The
out of the
fully
One gate was, kopt open and the police kept a path clear. In mid- afternoon, Sir John Weir, physlelan to the King, drove through. In ang old automobile,
SCHOOL PROBLEM Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret have never gone to school Royal Family council decided
(Continued on Page 5).
ū
STOP PRESS
Coudo
NO ULTIMATUM
M. Queullie's position was consi- derably strengthened by the decision of the MRP Council
this carly
MRP
would quit and the resulting crisis could only hasten General Gaulle's return to power.
de
to a
Communists Pounded By The
Force Nationalists Air
has
Nanking, Nov. 14-A high official told United Press today that Government planes were pounding Communist positions around Hsuchow in day-long raids In a blitz con- verging on the strategic railhub of four major bases.
was the first Ume | in all sectors and forecast that onc Apparently it morning to stay inside the Cabinet in the civil war that the Air Force more year, of fighting is required to He had previously warned
unleashed ita full power overthrow the Kuomintang-through- leaders that if they pulled out, he against a single objective.
out the nation. the air Military observers credit
Central News reported that the operation as contributing heavily to tho Nationalist effort in what is government flung in armoured corps shaping up as the war's biggest commanded personally by Generalis- The Socialist last night agreed not battle. The Reds reached within 10 imo Chiang Kai-shel's second son. to issue any ultimatuma
Col. Chlang Wei-kuo, Into the battle in the Ninchuang-Takeuchip Quouille, but they have also decided miles from Hauchow airfield.
The Communist radio broadcast
North Shen from
Shenet tonight claimed oa, 33 milos cast and southeast of Communist units Heuchow. Small the BASTIO victories in practically
panotrating into Tamião, 10 miles. area where the government. B-west of Hruchow. were repulsed Life in Paris returned to that of nounced succdcast said that a full- the Linghal line.
to November
and are now heading eastward along
to
M.
to put heavy pressure on
to him carry out extensive pro-labour pro- gramme in a short time.
was; going on for, scale offensive
normal on Sunday after yesterday's '2, The broadcast
It was also reported that the Communist-led 24-hour general
communications betwean iriko which affected only transport suchow on all sides. Saying there rall
but were fundamental changes In the Nanking and Hauchow disrupted by: services and newspapers, resulted in rioting in the Western general China war picture, the the Communists on Saturday
radio claimed superiorly resumed this morning-United, numerically as well as qualitatively. Press.
and. Southern districts in which the Red. police opened fire-Untied Press.
Wore