THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1935.
ASTOUNDING SCENES WITNESSED IN LONDON DURING JUBILEE
GREAT MULTITUDES
REJOICE
DEMONSTRATIONS OF LOYAL AFFECTION
"PROUD AND LOVELY PIECE OF PAGEANTRYTM
London, May 6. THE stately Jubilee Royal procession to the Thanksgiving Service at St. Paul's Cathedral in London and back to Buckingham Palace after the ceremony was witnessed with delight by a great multitude of happy people, acclaiming with deep affection their beloved King and Queen, was one of the high-lights of the celebrations in the capital city.
His Majesty, who has always been a keen horseman, is here seen zet urning from, a shoot on the moOZI..
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angury for the future, that-envoys from every quarter of the globe are assembled here to-day in amit goodwill
when
the Jubilee celebrations. Ameri-people, all classes and ca was particularly enthusiastic, together, and beyond it and the Associated Press, serving wide Empire in happiness over 1,500 papers, employed a joicing. The veneration of specially installed wire to trans-Englishman for his Royal Family mit 3.000 words of description has a genuinely relicious charac
Typical comments include: ter."-Nachtmusgabe... bra
AMERICAN
Empire Bands Of Steel
"It was a brilliant success on the
part both of the good-humoured [police and of the well-behaved; "This King business may, De dis public that Jubilee night should credited and on its last legs in have passed off as it did. The other parts of the world, but it is police never had to use force."- certainly not here. The rejoicing | Berliner Tageblatte
over the Jubilee, the respect and The enthusiasm of the English affection shown to the King, this crowd is not, of course, to be com most modest of gentlemen, who pared with the ebullient rapture has also been a wise king, a good with which the appearance of the hushand and a good father, er Leader is greeted at gatherings in tended to high and low, rich and Germany. Still, doubt cannot be poor alike
the genuine feelings of "Never in her proudest days has these millions, many thousands England witnessed the like of yes-whom camp out for 24 hours in the terday's scenes. The frenzy of open air to see the procession- jubilation in this staid old cits, Kreuz Zeitung.
decked out like a flower garden.
did not seem like sober England-
"The Eurpire may bé held to-
cast on
ITALY
"Vitality, Force, Solidarity”
gether by the slenderest link off "King George has distinguished sentiment whereof the King is the himself in British and world his living symbol, but that link, under tory by his profound internal stress has proved already
as policy and external combativeness, strong as the hardest steel-which reveal the vitality and force New York Times.
FRANCE
Example To The World
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the British nation and the solidarity of his monarchy."-- Giornale Italic.
"Most Beautiful Speech"
"The King's speech was the most
At St. Paul's Cathedral the King and Queen accompanied by 40 members of their family and in the presence of 5.000 of the leading citizens of the nation and the Empire, joined in a service of thanksgiving for the blessings of their 25 years" reign. In London, the heart of the Empire's tribute. tens of thou- sands-many of whom had stood all night in the streets ace to continue, the task which 25 relations are claimed Their Majesties with the greatest demonstration of love
and have always) were tossed aside like straws and loyalty the capital has ever known.
years ago I set myself to do. Before been peculiarly happy.
50,000 people stormed the palace în I succeeded my father, the Queen Royal weather graced Their, cavalry itself a survival from the and I had the privilege of study-
*Your Excellency has rightly
wild burst of patriotic ardour.
"The modern monarchical in- Majesties progress The day age of chivalry.
ing at Erst hand the Dominions called attention to the gradual in- There was an amusing moment, "For a quarter of a century,stitution is the creation of English was the warmest of the rear Nearer yet, the dust rising lazily overseas and India. We were fel-crease in the number of States re-
which caused the King to laugh, through troubled and tragic times, political genius, which has stood and unbroken sunshine gave the from the horses' hooves, the people! low-travellers, then as now, co picasure to me and I hope a happy
presented at my Court. It is ap
little Princess Margaret the reciprocal affection and con- the test of time, and grows ever utmost colour and galety to the cheering, the sun-most cunning. paring notes and sharing impres
Rose was striving to peer over fidence of the Sovereigns of Eng more deeply into the heart of the decorations in the metropolis and most grandiose of stage managers sions.
the parapet.
The King's seeing land and their subjects has never English people.—Tribuna in every city, town and hamlet dinging his beams off cuirass and **** treasure these memories
her plight, ordered a stood to be waned. Here is something unique throughout the country.
belnet, sword and polished gun and keep them alive.
AUSTRIA brought and lifted the little history-and in fairy tales. Here Moreover, Yast crowds surrounded. Bucking?!
That was a sight to set due cheer what we forget our four sons areț.
Princess on to it
is a magnificent example for the ham Palace all day and antil late ating even before the King and Queen now able to recall. Many years
"I have heard it rumoured that From that time on, Princess Mar-other heads of State, as for the night.
could be seen, a sight to set the before our happy, partnership be among your colleagues my capital saret Rose waved continuously to other peoples of Earope and the beautiful ever delivered by a King. At 9.15 pm, in response to re- heart beating quicker.....Lancers, ran, I had, as a midshipman, sail is a greatly coveted post. I am in the crowd. She obviously liked it.
universe"--Petit Parisien.
It was a truly Royal speech, just peated cries of We want the with red and white pennants can cd the Seven Seas: I realised early deed happy if that is the case and After they had lunched, the King of this so-called nation of shop the speech of a good man.”
"The citizens, great and small, because it was so unroyal It was King Their Majesties appeared-eing. Carabiniers, Hussars. Dra that the Empire has many climes, just as I consider my Court to be and Queen again showed themselves keepers have put their country be- Telegraf am Mittag. for the third time since their re-roons, Royal Horse Artillery- but one spirit.
singularly well-favoured in respect to a crowd of 30,000 people massed fore their money. King George The celebrations caused a writer turn to the Palace on the balcons, Royal show if ever there was one.
Unique Gathering
of the representatives accredited in front of the Palace gates. to be acclaimed by a crowd of be-
What a cheer the King and Queen)
can pass through the streets with in Le Matin to lament the fact that I regard this as a unique gather-to it, so it will be my unfailing en- The Queen waved her arm up his head held high. Never before large ceremonies no longer take tween 150,000 and 200,000.
had received when they left the ing where we can tell one another deavour to ensure that no support and down to the crowd a number has the Crown been able to raise place in Paris "But we are past Palace two hours before-first vol- of our succeses and also of outor encouragement of which " they of times with gay-vigour. les in a
The itself higher above classes day's bombardment of failures and mistakes.
and masters in the art of the funeral,” But there may stand in neen shall ever be the cheers!
gesture was answered with aparties; never before has it play he adds... will be no sharp criticism norrain || lacking
special mighty sheer all for her.ed better that martial role which regrets, for we are in sympathy. Your Excellency, once more 1
England also wishes to play among one with another, conscious that thank you and your colleagues on
the nations.-M. Paul Morand in we have acted according to our own behalf and in the name of lights for the good name and or- the Queen and of my family for
Le Figaro.. dered prosperity of the family.
your kind expressions of goodwill. minutes at the window of the Chinare lacking in logic, our political reciprocate them, and I pray God "We are sometimes told that we I deeply appreciate and heartily lese Room, looking out at the vista institutions loose and undefined that the unity of purpose
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The King commanded, the flood lighting to be turned on, and for five minutes he stood with Queen, brilliantly illuminated. way- ing to the throng.
Earlier Glimpses and of the crowds.
It was not the King's first sight "For His Majesty, dressed in
Shortly after nine
2 *Tey morning suit, stood for some
The crowd cheered again again and repeatedly sang He's a Jolly Good Fellow.***
Shortly before ter
his Majesty pressed a button in the Palace. A once the great bonfire burst into flame-and a chain of 2,000 beacon fires blazed out on every hilltop
Britain
in
the
Enormous crowds turned- West End of London; brilliant with floodlighting, into a carnival city Countless millions of the King's subjects throughout Britain and the Empire joined in the rejoicings.
Thunderous Ovation Of Populace
PANOPLY OF UNIFORM
A proud and lovely piece of pageantry that went its way to a thunderous ovation of the people
to their King and Queen
in
that
C
which
of the Mall and talking to the Duke But I look back on the trying and has brought you here together to- of Gloucester. caught a glimpse of the King and have passed, and wonder whether a ing peace in the world at large
The crowds also testing time through which we day may be a symbol of an endur- Queen as they went in to break-less flexible system would have withstood the strains to which we of have been subjected.
Scene On Balcony
fäst
GREETED BY ENORMOUS CROWD
movement and music.
There came a long interval
Bands biar- ing. scldiers and sailors marching as our shield and buckler, we have With common sense and good will into position, latecomers hurrying kept, in spite of all difficulties, our Ito their seats.
heritage of liberty alike for the in- There is the stage all set for the dividual and for our many constit- Royal entry. Along the walls of the uent races.
In response to a clamouring Palace the Horse Guards and Life]
crowd of nearly 200,000 at "The numberless and invisible Buckingham Palace on the night Guards are drawn up, glittering ties of sentiment and tradition of May 6 the King and Queen ap- which bind us together are indeed peared on the balcony for the delicate, but many strands make third time. cable strong to bind in times of adversity..
statues.
KING'S MESSAGE
TO EMPIRE
They Are Coming Home'
They stood there for 12 min-
utes five of them in the glare
It is my prayer, no less than my of floodlights, which the King spirit may prove also the bond of the benefit of the crown firm belief that this bond of the had ordered to be turned on for]
peace,
The jewels of the Queen glitter-
the procession came along the M2when they visit this country Mother Country, of the Dominios/the balcony at 9.15 p.m. in response
was the great Jubilee Procession Everywhere the massed onlook- ers gasped at the triumphantly,
The following message to the "Some of you are. with a few Jed, brilliantly in the beams of the effective panoply of uniform and Empire was spoken by His Majes happy exceptions, about my own light. As she and the King waved weapon that glowed and twinkled at the levee held at St. James's age. I pray for the continuance of their hands, the 200,000 yelled
the sunshine of a perfect Palace:-
God's blessing on your labours themselves hoarse, and spontan summer day.
"There is a word which glad With His help I will work on with eously burst into singing "For He's But the climax to all its beau-dens me more especially when Iyon in the years that remain for
a Jolly Good Fellow.” hear it used by friends from that object which has ever been ties was in the last half-mile, when
The King and Queen had come to overseas, many of whom say next my heart-the welfare of the accompanied by a great crash of
"We want to a united shout of: cheers.
overseas, and of India, their hap- Watchers at the Victoria Memorial Queen and I meet you to-day,
"It is in this spirit that the piness and their good repute.”.
the King." The 200,000 had then sung the National Anthem with gazing towards the distant Ad you who represent the vast ter
great emotion, and showed that miralty Arch saw a picture Of
KING'S RÉPLY TO ritories of the Dominions, Col-
they would not disperse until the which the frame alone was superbonies, and the Protectorates, my
DIPLOMATS
King and Queen had appeared. The lines of tall masts swept, per peoples of India and the dwell- spective-palled, inwards to the disers in countless isles of the sea tant Arch. Their banners, moving from the Pacific to our own home a little in the wind, glinted against waters
the new green of the trees.
that they are coming home.”
His Majesty Deeply Touched
Never before, not even on Aimis- tice Day or at any of the Royal weddings, had they seen such a throng nor such enthusiastic loy alty: After the King and Queen.
Police Swept Away
WILD BURST OF ARDOUR
"That balcony of history --- in the
"We greet the Prime Ministers Lining the edges of London's of the Dominions, now equal
- The King's reply to the foreign had returned into the palace, the roblest boulevard were the Guards partners in the Empire, and diplomats, who had presented Els cheering went on for more than Never had their black and scarlet thank them for the addresses Majesty with an address of con half-an-hour. looked more magnificent Behind from their Parliaments which gratulation, was addressed to the were the eager people in all their they have handed to me.
・We
Bazilian - Ambassador, Doyen of thousands.
It was welcome one and all to our home the Diplomatic Corps Mass Of Moving Colour "Eventful your visit cannot fail as follows Right away near the Arch were to be--I trust that it will be happy the congratulations and good "The warmth and sincerity of two blobe of white the helmets of also. And when the time comes for wishes which you have just ad- the Marines. And into this frame, you to return I would ask you to dressed to me in the name of minds of English people it is inse glimpsed at first as a mass of mov- take back, each to his own people, the diplomatic body accredited to parable with many landmarks of ing colour and shifting pin-points a message of affection to every of light in the heat haze, trotted the member of this great family of my Court have deeply touched the King's reign the declaration
which I am so proud and thankful
|the Queen and myself.
of war, the Armistice, the mar Whatever misgivings had at one to be the head, and a message of to me that these words should Recollections of crisis and of joy
“It is particularly gratifying riages of the King's children time been voiced as to the scope of deep gratitude for the loyal and have the procession, no carper in the kind words which you have spoken whose long residence in London Bed and were with them
been pronounced by one arise from the 25 year that have world could have endured after one or their behalt
and whose well-known friend- that moment, the great giance at that overwhelmingly" fine.
An Impization ...
ship for my country have won all sight. Onward they came, with a You all who are here to-day and for him an especial esteem, not The King and-Quee swing and a fash, a jingle of har- who hold responsible positions will only as an individual but as the ness, a proud tossing of pemant.] best know what an inspiration and representative of a great and Full dress uniforms of the cavalry-encouragement your wards are friend
with which
Cavalcade of Jubilee.
On the
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WORLD HOMAGE TO THE KING
Gleanings From Press Reports
"In England the Monarchy is: force, more vitally alive than ever not a lapsed institution but a moral
Echo de Paris.
Jubilee Babies
HOXTON AND BELFAST FIRST
Lond's first Jubilee baby was a son born two minutes after mid- The Jubilee was really the com-Right on May 6 to Mrs. Janet Eliza-
and fervent Le Matin, munion which was simple, joyful reengrocer. munion of a whole nation, a com-beth Barber, the wife of a Hoxton
At the General Lying-in Hospital the first birth was at 12.19 am
GERMANY.
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joined in paying homage to the The Press of the whole world
King and Queen, and în ed- phasising the unexampled affec-
to Mrs. Dorothy-Ansell, of tion and loyalty displayed by the
Hanover-gardens, Kennington Two.. people of Britain towards them. "The foreign observer has been other babies, also boys, were barz
Newspapers everywhere print-overwhelmingly impressed by this in the hospital during the day. {ed full and glowing accounts of celebration which united a whole
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