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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1952.

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propaganda campaign directed' against Hongkong, -initiated few weeks ago: by Peking Radio and given Jubileity in other parts of the world, has introduced a slightly new angle. Latest broadcasts and editorials from the mainland make innuendos concerning the squalier area fire at Tung Tau village last December, darkly hinting that the blaze Was deliberately started in order to deprive thousands of Chinese of their homes and property. Fabrication of malicious les and luferences is no

new feature of propaganda

Westminster

Abbey Closing

After Easter

London, Feb. 12.

Westminster Abbey will be closed soon after Easter, it was learned on Wednesday, to prepare emanating from State it for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. dominated countries; Nazi Germany developed and perfected

the

It apparently indicated that the new queen technique would be crowned shortly after the official period which has since been of court mourning which ends on May 31. Easter adopted by the Communists is April 13.

wherever they are in con- trol. The Intention is to

Row seeds of hatred in the minds of the people who propagandists and to cause

are under the rule of the

mistrust and apprehension

the Chinese Communist

High Church of England sources said the famous church will be closed for "some time" to permit installation of stalls for attendant peers and to make other necessary structural changes.

There is still no firm indication of the exact in other parts of the date chosen for the solemn and historic ceremony, world. Those in charge of but it is doubtful if England's most famous church propaganda machine know would be kept closed for any considerable length only too well there are in-of-time. the West people..suspicious of Hongkong's position and role in current Far East affairs and who can easily be persuaded that we are machiavellian in motive and selfish in Intention.

ONGKONG'S only method

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able name and there seems little doubt that Prince Charles

Premier

Aly Maher Pasha (68), newly appointed Prime Minister of Egypt, who suc- ceeded Nahas Pasha, dismissed by King Farouk after the recent Cairo riots, talks to representatives of the Press. -- London Express;

Army Of Mourners Converge On Westminster Hall

POIGNANT SCENE VIVIDLY DESCRIBED

London, Feb. 11.

A great army is on the move through the heart of London, creep- ing step by step towards. Westminster Hall where King George lies in State.

These people come from all over Britain, from the Colonies and from coun stries in all parts of the world.”. A

Londoners

..

the

All of them face a five hours'

snail pace crawl before they pass

before the purple island in West-

tminster Hall where their King

quietly

曾

Pentuguese passed

over

ROYALTY ARRIVES King Gustav Adolf and Queen Loulas of Sweden were received London Airport by the Duke of Edinburgh, who later met Dr Ivan Ribar, President of the Yugoslav Republic, and

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Egyptian Envoy Sees Eden

Critical Interview

* London, Feb, 13. Abdel Fattah Amr Pasha, Egyptian Ambassador. to Britain, called at

the Foreign Ofice this evening for a critical interview with the British Foreign Secre tary, Mr Anthony Eden.

He delivered a message from the Egyptian Prime Minister, Aly Maher Pasha,

According to a usually reliable source this indicated that the Egyptian Government is HOW willing to resume cofitacts with the British Government with a view to settling the Anglo- Egyptian dispute if Britain has uny proposals to make,

Amr Pasha was recalled to Calro In the middle of the Anglo-Egyptian tension lost Decembor.

Today's meeting with Mr Eden was his arsi

Bindo, then,

Mountbatten

For NATO Post Urged

Lisbon, Feb. 13... British quarters aro understood to be pressing today for the appointment

A spokesman of the Egyptian of Admiral Mountbatten as Embassy said that Amr Pasha Commander of the Atlantic had returned to London as a

member of the Egyptian funeral Pact naval forces in the mission and not in his capacity Mediterranean. as Ambassador, He added that no date had been fixed for Amr Pasha's return to Cairo, Reuter,

CAIRO AUDIENCE

Cairo, Feb. 13. King Farouk this afternoon gave an audience to the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Steven son, the Court Circular nounced tonight

The Ambassador was summon ed by the King at Abdin Palace.

The audience lasted minutes.

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Observers here believed that

strvers

resumo

They felt that one Eriton should be considered for the top NATO naval position since United States Admiral Lyua McCormick has been mado Supreme Commander of the Atlantic area,

miral, Admiral Robert Carney, A second United States Ad-

Allied Forces, would be over- chief of the Southern European burdened, in case of war if he has to head, as well, inland 93a naval forces, as he does

now.

it was connected' with the forth

th coming attempts

Observera saldt was doubt- Anglo-Egyptian negotiations. ful whether the question of At the same time these obthe complicated. Mediterranean considered that the Command set-up would be Egyptian Premier's decision to decided at the Council meeting create

a new territorial army opening hero today, farmed by youths who want

The admission of Greece and to see Egypt's national aspiro: Turkey to NATO would mean tions achieved" may

may serve as a

the extension of Admiral Car security meastire,

The Premier ald that since United Press.

ney's responsibilities eastward, his Government has the same

aims as the youths, it "cannot oppose their efforts to serve the Fatherland.”—-Reuter,

TUC BUDGET DEMANDS

PART EVACUATION

Cairo, Feb, 13. by the Foreign Minister, Me

British troops have partly Paula Cimba.

evucuated the Arab district of Pakistan's now

High Com- Ismalle, it missioner to Britain, Mr M. A. H. tonight.

was reported here the beat train, from Southamp-sult of arrangements made last Britain's Trades Union Congress Ispahrani, arrived in London by This step was taken as a re-

London, Feb. 13. The Economic Committee of ton this afternoon,

Saturday between the Comman- Pekistan will be represented at der of the British Forces in is to demand that bigger food Mohammed the Raval

funeral

by Sir Egypt, General George Erakine subsidies and a six-penny in- Paicistan's Foreign Minister, and the Suez Canal Zone, to restore the Pound-be included in the

Zafrullah Khop, and the Egyptian Governor crease in the standard rate

of income tax-to 10 shillings in by Mr Ispahani-Router

normal situation in Ismailia.

Some 100 British light tanks Richard Butler's March. 4 bud- Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr and military vehldies, com get, usually reliable sources said panied by 200 officers and men, arrived Joday in the Canal zone

here today. froen Cyprus

Church sources sald the keys remaining in to the Abbey will be handed to Mountbatten, his father's family. the family of "very shortly after Easter and of the representatives of the Crown She is the fourth Sovereign the great edifice will be closed. name adopted by King George Rouse of Windsor, the procedure .follows from In 1917, Until then the Rov Peking Radio propaganda by Westminster Abbey. The of Saxe Coburg-Goths, derived peculiar position decupled family belonged to the Houss is designed to play on these church is not subject to the from Prince Albert, Consert ignorant and susceptible jurisdiction of

Or any Bishop. but, Victoria. minds, and, only too un- ar one authority explained, But in the first World fortunately, the manoeuvre longs" to the Crown.

King against. Germany, Formally such a church as

George meets with a measure of

decided by Westminster

Proclamation and BUCCESS.

Abbey, George's

St. against retaining the German Chapel In Windsor, mame for

They speak in whispers in a dozen different languages, his family, and where King George VI will be the House of Windsor began. But there is a camarderie in Clarence 'House of countering slanderous "Royal Peculiars, meaning that of the Fient, Louis of Batten- mon aim binds them together entrance,

are known as At the same time, Admiral this long, sud procession. A com-

also slipped Don Juan, Pretender to the In through a side Spanish throne, flew here to propaganda is to let the they stand as evidence of the berg, the great uncle

represent the rest of the world know the unbroken

Spanish Royal links

of the to pay their last respects to a between 'the Duke of Edinburgh,

By early changed dead King

tonight 123,320 Family. fucts. No apologies are Crown and the established his name to Mountbatten.

people had already They arrive in the capital in through the Hall and still the

In the same plane came the required. And the facts Church of England,

Cyril Hankinson, Editor

delegation headed coaches and cars while queue outside. was well relating to the Tung Tau

Church sources pointed out Debrett, Britain's standard re- some hitch-hire from the coun- 30,000 strong.

of trains, there that fire are sufficient to make

was a tremendous forence wo

work ot the Royal try in lorries,

During the and the Peerage, and

day prominent ludicrous the imaginative amoun of work to be done in Family

the

como from their guests from abroad have been Abbey to prepare it for the today: "It is unlikely that the homes in the fashionable lies which are being broad- coronation which is one of the Queen will expect her son to End, from tiny houses in

West arriving in Britain to take part cast and published from most solemn ceremonies in the carry on the Windsor name,

In the funeral, the China mainland. It is ritual of the Church of Eng. "Mountbatten is a very honour of the East End to join the suburbs and the poorer districts well to recapitulate them: Jand.

hushed queue. free meals served to 5,000 1t the coronation is held at the victims the day after the early date indicated by the anti-will bear it." fire, the food being supplied cipated closing of the Abbey, it will be the first time in more and cooked by Government than 200 years that

a British and distributed by the sovereign has been crowned in Kowloon

Kaifong the year of his or her succes City Welfare Association; 320,- sien. 000 pieces of clothing dis- The unusually short period of tributed by the Kalfong court mourning ordered by Queen Association: $227,000 con- Elizabeth II for her late father Edinburgh, who will naturally tributed to a relief fund, had led to speculation that an share the Queen's added respons and stretching out for well

early coronation was in sight. with

beneficiaries

One problem which

titles, will not alter officially, over one and a half miles be be But it wall

side the grey River Thames, offered the alternative of solved before the ceremony is Queen to decide whether the

file along in ranks 10 deep.. cash or building materials the position the Duke of Edin-win follow

the A policeman holds up example to enable them to construct[burgh,, husband of the queen, Queen Victor,

traffic as the crowds cross the who granted new dwellings; accelera- will take at it. The last Queen Albert precedence next after road, tion of a scheme to resettle of England,

A blind man taps unseeingly decree, the Colony's

married until after her coront- squatters,

It was before she made him take the

kerb. An old woman takes with priority given to the tion and the problem did

arise-Associated Press.

title of Prince

his

уси help erm "Let me Consort victims of the Tung Tau ·· LAST OF LINET

over. Elizabeth will also have to village fire. This is the l

Lindon, Feb. 13,

Two American airmen shuffle decide whether she will confer Colony's answer to Peking's Queen Elizabeth II will be allegations of maltreatment the last monarch of the House the title of Prince of Wales on along with the crowd. Flown in from French Morocco yester- Prince Charles, the Her Ap- and discrimination directed of Windsor unless the decides

day they told the people around against the

that her three-year-old son, Parent to the Throne.

"We are only in England Chinese

them, The Prince, as the eldest son Prince Charles, should carry of the Sovereign, has inherited

for a few days. We had to see inhabitants. It is complete

on hor family's name. and requiros no embroidery.

Sources closed to the '

title of Duke of Cornwall your King. A long wait? Sure, But it needs to be made Queen, however, belleve that

from hia. great uncle, the Duke but worth it"

A woman joins the tail end. Windsor. known to those who are she is unlikely to make this of gullible enough or blased decision, which would have to Princess Margaret, next of Shei asks a policeman, "How get to West- enough to give credence to be carried out by a Proclama- full age in the line of success long before we

slon, would act as Regent if a Nearly tion.

minster Hall?" the false and hostile pro-

five hours," he tells becomes Modern-minded Queen Eliza-Regency

посеведкуван from both is understood to favour before Prince Charles was 21. her, paganda coming Peking....

She runs to the nearest tele the idea of the young Prince Reuter.

phone box. She had to cancel a plane reservation at London Airport. *** must see the King before I ," she said to her neighbour. go,

War

veterans hobbled along

the

4

must

MANY CHANGES The Accession of the Queen, rests. Brita's 40th sovereign since the Norman Conquest, is ex- to be followed by many peated changes.

The position of the Duke

be

the

of

for the new

For 10 minutes they gaza on the candle lit bien-then return to the world outside.

80,000 STRONG

The crowd, often 30,000 strong

Victoria, was not heredi by special however, with his white stick for the

not

the

new

Order Of Funeral Procession

London, Feb, 13.

The Royal funeral procession in London on Friday will be headed by an officer of the War Office staff and the bands of the Royal Air Force and the Welch Guards.”

Then will follow Celonial and ranking officers of the British

想

•The Foot Guards, will come wendt came the st

Drum

on sticks and crutches, Old women, some of them in their late 70's, ware there, too.

. Mothers held children in their arms,

Colonial Troops In Procession

London, Feb, 13,

A contingent of Colonial troops arrived In London today to take part in the King's funeral prosession on Friday.

The contingent consists of two officers......Major B.T. Richards of the 4th (Uganda) Battalion, King's African Flites, and a Wert Afrionu captain-and 20 Other Hanks drown from the King's African Rifles, the Royal West African Frontier Force, the North- ern Rhodesian Riffés and the Royal Malta Artillery. The Late King was Colonel-in-Chief of all these regiments.

The Colonial conflorent will be near the head of the procession,' immediate- ly behind an officer of the War Office staff, the bands of the Royal · Ale'. Force and the Welsh Guards and Commonwealth..., troops, — Our Own Correspondent,

- WINDSOR

KNEELS London, Feb. 13. Queen Mary,

84-year-old mother of the dead King, to night took the Duke of Windsor. her

eldest son, to see his brother's coffin.

Together they walked round the purple-draped catafalque in Westminster Hall, where thou- sands of Britons have paid tribute to the 'King in two days of lying En

state. The dimly-lit Hall, guartled by Army officers and Gentle men-at-Arms, was cleared of ordinary pilgrima 15 the Dowager Queen and her son, with her daughter, Princess Royal, walked through.

public

on

The Duke knelti on one linee entering and leaving the

Fall.

Queen Mary and the Princess Royal.. stood motionless with their heads bowed for several rainutes. The Royal visitors stayed by the bler for 14. minutes.

It was later learned that one stream of people were allowed In the fall on the side of the catafaique opposite the Royal party, re

..

ד'' .

After a few moments, Queen Mary. told a police inspector to allow the queue to continue moving fa the usual two Nles, and for a period the public wero in the Hall at tho, same" time as the Queen and the Duke.

Reuter,

Members of foreign Royal Corriand bables in baby other members of the Yugoslav Poet Laureate

Civil Defence Corps.

delegation to the funeral

Dr Ribar is making the

was

London, Feb. 13.10 Poet Laureato John Masefield and today he is worlding on a postic, tribute to King George VC, and that an ode to the new

The reinforcements were from

The Committee was also be leved to have approved at a Hertfordshire and Kedfordshire meeting here today a request for regiments.

and taxation of turf and football bet 154tings.

As $70003

material avere arriving British service tamilies embarked here for repatriation to Britain. -France-Presse.

It is to send a detailed refer-

endum to Mr Buder-Reuter.

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SECOND PILARIMAGE

Brst State visit by any Yugoslav Writing Tribute Army, und Infantry of the line, chant Navy and Admirals of the be the King's "light, the Royal

Mr Clement Atlee, Leader of to Britain since the war. followed by the, bands of the| Ficet will be followed by, the Air Force; the band of the Royal Opposition, joined the ́ ́Irish `and. Coldstream Guards. Aides-de-Camp to His Late Tagineers, the police band and pligrimage today for the esconding Paul of Grexce

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Windsor the procession of the Royal Marines and the The Fri-Marshal will Im-will be led by an officer of the don hospitals were escorted dence, to attend the funeral as very grept man bean Poet Royal Navy, akarta madiately proceed the gum Headquarters Staff and a dis. Into the Hall, to avald Having the President's personal repre-

Maseßeld has Behind will come cancer of carriage, which will be followed mouribed detachment of the Ate to queus after working all sentative.

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STRANDEN. The Spanish Foreign Minister, Bershire, not far from Windsor rainions, chaplains of the three Queen in her carriage uns, then presentoliya" officers of forelim Members of the staff of Sepor: Alberta Martin Ariejo, where the King is to be buried

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