1937-05-11 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 11, 1937.

CORONATION

Rain or Fine, To Be Carried Out In Full

MORE SPECIAL REHEARSALS

London, To-day.

Two Abbey rehearsals ushered in Coronation week yesterday when thousands of sightseers stood in the rain and cheered the arrival of about 250 not- ables at a rehearsal held in the morning.

In the afternoon, which was blessed by finer weather, excited crowds surged about the Royal car when the King and Queen, both waving and smiling, attended what is probably the final rehear- sal.

THEIR MAJESTIES' VISIT IN THE AFTERNOON WAS A SURPRISE AFFAIR. THE KING WORE A BOWLER HAT, A SHORT BLACK COAT AND STRIPED TROUSERS, WHILE THE QUEEN WAS WEARING A LONG COAT WITH PUFFED

SLEEVES AND A WIDE BRIMMED STRAW HAT. ·

The Duke of Gloucester and, the Duke of Kent also arrived and the rehearsal of the Royal procession to the Coronation theatre took place.

The Archbishop of Canterbury wore a cope of purple and gold.

Buckingham Palace all day was the focus of a multitude of Corona- tion visitors.

PALL MALL JAMMED

Pall Mall was jammed with cars moving at snail's pace while thou- sands thronged the Palace gates and admired the Australian troops on sentry duty.

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Sultan's Gift For Coronation

London, To-day. It is officially announced that the Government has received with warm approval, the offer of the Malay Sultan of Kelan- tan to commemorate the Coro- nation by allocating a site for an aerodrome at Kota Bahru

The Sultan has also offered to allocate funds and provide for its development and mainten- ance-Reuter.

After gazing hopefully for many hours at the Palace, the crowd was mumÆ(1501)JÅŸŸŸ}21⠀⠀ JELENTA LAYEVE!!!!] rewarded shortly before 1 o'clock, when Princess Elizabeth and Prin- ly luncheon party at Buckingham cess Margaret Rose appeared at a Palace. To-night they entertained second floor window and

waved over four hundred guests at a State happily to the huge throng.

Banquet. British Wireless.

SOCIAL ROUND

PRIVATE REHEARSAL Following a full dress rehearsal of the Coronation

ceremony at

A round of brilliant social func-Westminster Abbey, the King and tions opened yesterday with the Queen attended a private rehearsal King and Queen's luncheonat at the Abbey yesterday afternoon.

Buckingham Palace to foreign Royalties, most of whom have now arrived in London.

Four hundred and fifty notable were to attend the State banquet at Buckingham Palace last night. On Coronation Day the B.B.C. will attempt the first real “outside television broadcast" in history.

ninety minutes and the Dukes of Their Majesties remained for

Gloucester and Kent were also pre- sent. British Wireless.

Weather Conditions Will Not Affect Ceremonies

London, To-day.

The entire progress of the two- mile procession passing Hyde Park Corner will be photograph-| ed by three cameras and a new

It was officially stated at Buck- mobile television unit, and willingham Palace last evening that be shown on the television screen. whatever the weather on Coronation Day all processions to and from Westminster Abbey will take place without modification. British Wire-

NEW STAMPS

Crowds watching the decorations less. all night secured mementos in the shape of the new King George stamps.

Sightseers queued outside poss offices from midnight and over 35,000,000 stamps were sold during the day.

issue

The previous record "new stamps sold in a day was 25,000,- 000.-Reuter.

FAMILY PARTY

London, Yesterday.

The King and Queen gave a fami-

Queen Mary's Gift To Nation

London, To-day. Queen Mary has presented fourteen engravings to the Na- tion

The engravings are 18th cen tury pictures of the Royal Fami- ly of France-Reuter.

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King's Guest

Miss Lizzie McCulloch, worker in the carpet factory at Glasgow, Scotland, in which the coronation carpet was woven, received a per- sonal invitation from King George VI to be present at his coronation. That's the reason for that big smile.

About 20,000 Nazi leaflets were found

Glittering Prelude Of Pageantry

LONDON, TO-DAY.

THE PROCESSIONS WHICH WILL FORM A GLITTERING PRELUDE TO THE CORONA- TION WILL BEGIN TWO HOURS BEFORE THE KING AND QUEEN REACH WEST- MINSTER ABBEY.

The full official "ceremonial” of the Coronation has been issued set- ting forth every detail of the pa- geantry accompanying the rites.

It shows that twenty Royal guests will head the procession of repre- sentatives of foreign States, led by Prince and Princess Chichibu of Japan, and eighteen members of the British Royal Family will form the first procession due at the Abbey at 8.55 a.m.

Princess Elizabeth and Prin- cess Margaret Rose will walk on either side of the Princess Royal in the "procession of Princes and Princesses of Royal blood.” They will be followed by the Duchesses of Gloucester and Keat. SIX PROCESSIONS M. Maxim Litvinov, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, will walk im- mediately behind -Count Dino Grandi, the Italian Ambassador, while

Mr. Stanley Baldwin will

in an Austrian motor-car coming from head a group of five Prime Minis- Italy when it was stopped at theters.

Austro-Italian frontier village of Tori- Six processions will pass through Maglern.

the Abbey before the Coronation,

The suit brought by Miss Judith namely members of the Royal Allen, the film actress, wife of the Family, foreign representatives, the boxer. Jack Doyle, for the annulment Dean and prebendaries of West- of their marriage was refused at Los minster bearing the Royal regalia, Angeles,

the Royal Princes and Princesses,

Miss Jean Batten, the New Zealand Queen Mary with Queen Maud of air-woman, who last October made the Norway and the culminating proces- first direct solo flight from England sion in which the King and Queen to New Zealand, has been awarded the Harmon trophy for 1936 for the will move to the theatre, their re- world's outstanding aviator.”

galia borne before them.-Reuter.

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