THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958.
DUAL DISASTERS With these hands
STUN BRITAIN
London.
Britain is still stunned by the dual disasters—the loss of the Princess Victoria In the Irish sea and the havoc in Eastern coastal areas resulting from the recent violent gales.
Theso stark tragedies the worst flood years in re- took a heavy toll of human cont history. America, Japan,
India Turkey and
ou en- life.
countered disasters-both Japan and Turkey reporting death rolls running into thousands
30-county while Britni had a calamity that led to the Govern ment Instituting £1,000,000 distrces fund,
Unhappily, this century has been studded with incident where flooding has brought great suffering. In its opening year, 1800, two hundred people were drowned in Japan. The year afterwards, Chino's Yang- tse River overflowel
with ap- palting loss of lite.
In 1926. America's "Mighty Mo-the Mississippi-burst its banks, drowning 150 peuple and rendering 150,000 more home- Jess,
With these hands now folded in repose drawn by ROBB with the co- operation of Lambeth Palace the Arch. bishop of Canterbury will crown Elizabeth as Queen on June 2.... N his right hand the
archbishop, Geoffrey
O
The latest catastrophe, how- ever,
the
sen-flood worst
ring. Britain has suffered for over a hundred years,
The incredible. damage that
Dr Fisher,
wears an Episcopal
This ring he must wear "perpetually" as a badge of his holy office.
It is set with an egg-
In 1984 India's sacred River fors upon tons of wind-driven shaped amethyst, is Ganges engulfed Alty entire seawater can do when it
villages.
en. of
smashes with batteringram graved with the arms And thirteen years later, the force upon brick, cement or the Seo of Canterbury. work! exporincod One
steel must be seen to be be As the archbishop raises aloft the Crown his ring
catch the
Ugly Riots In Guatemala
of
Guatemala City, Feb. D. Shooting broke out here at 7.30 tonight between demon. strating students, police Communists.
and
The number of killed and wounded 1st not Immediately available no firing continues.
First reports indicate that at least 25 people have been wounded and 15 to 20 killed Reuter.
Drug Trafficker Sent To Prison
Stuttgard, Feb. 9. Ben Amor Abderazac of Tunisia was sentenced to four years' imprisonment by a United States court here today for running a narcotics ring which sold drugs, mostly marijuana, to American servicemen.
Two years of the sentence were suspended.
Hoved.
In the autumn of 1043, for will instance, come 30 oil companies light,
the. 0.6
had just completed the first batch rings of his pre- of slet "and" platforms for underwater drilling in the Gulf decessora
of Mexico. Ard, that same authe
down centuries
But why have
tumin, an abnormally severe have caught the Coronation hurricane blew up.
The platforms, fashioned treen massive steel girders and plates,
glitter.
Every bishop and arch- looked as safe and solid as the bishop has an Episcopal most robust pier. They had been ring which he wears for the designed, moreover to withstand first time when he is con- exposure to hurricanes. Yet, when the fifty-foot waves of the Gulf secrated blahop. Usually hammered against them, while a friends or relations give it 120-mile-an-hour wind wrenched to him in commemoration. at their volls, thick steel struts and sheets were ripped loose as though they were made of ply
Dr Fisher first wore
ono
wood and canvas. Several of the when he was consecrated platfons disappeared without Bishop of Chester in 1932.
traze,
T
a
Coronation
WHEN
ELIZABETH IS ALREADY THE QUEEN?
HE Queen is already Queen. She has been reigning now for over a year. So why then-some will ask -why then all the elaborate ceremonies of Corona-
tion in Westminster Abbey?
This time-lag between Accession and Coronation is a fairly modern thing. There were past centuries when the new Sovereign was not made King until his Coronation.
But the two occasions are
Fortunately, owing to the
He was 67 when he be quite different. They calledl with which the olt speed
Can- meteorological teams had flashed came Archbishop of
it, 1,000 years ago, not "The warning of the
1945 hurricane's terbury in
the
Coronation" but the Con- approach, no lives were added
archbishop youngest
of The oil
secration or Sacring of the Three other members of the to the material loss.
modern times. damaged their ring are awaiting sentence.platforms and resumed their
men rebuilt
Sovereign, But he will not be the The Accession to the youngest archbishop to Throne is A legal and crown the Sovereign this constitutional act. The century, Dr Randall Coronation is through and Thomas
the through religious. It takes Davidson,
Reuter.
Lifeboat Capsizes: Five Drowned
Fraserburgh,
difficult task.
.
But recent experience shows the frailty of man's works when they are exposed to the full force of the elements. Every- one who depends for security Archbishop of Canterbury A Fraserburgh lifebont cap upon some sea wall knows this who crowned King George V sized in heavy seas this after--only 100 noon with the loss of five of know, as now the whole astien was only 68. her six crew.
Scotland, Feb. 9.
The lifeboat had gone out to stand by fishing boalg off skute -Reuter.
way.
well.
They
when the sea
also
woll
Chanderi Kadal -
crown-
place within the majestle Betting of the Church's highest act of worship.
Canon HUGH
WARNER
-As personal chaplain to Dr. William Temple, then Archbishop of York, was present in the Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey when King George VI was crowned on May 12, 1937.. Today Canon Warner-
explains the deep symbolism of it all
+
SECOND DAY OF
CROWNING YEA
studded with rubles, emeralda, sapphires, diamonds, and single large amethyst, ́aym- bolites the earth dominated by the authority of Christ, This is put into the Queen's hands then carried to the Altar.
On the fourth Angie et her Right hand thr cbfehop places the Wedding Ring of England, a sapphire set in din- mands with the Crow of St. George set in rubles, Thus is. the united with her Peoples and they with her in the
responsibilities now laid upon
her.
"Receive this Ring," says the archbishop,
"the ension of queenly dignity, and of defence up the Catholle Faith," to which "in the "erced she has assented; The most ancient of all the
symbols of royalty are the two sceptres now placed in her gloved hands. Each is sur- mounted by a symbol of the Christian faith. A cross on one stands for love that fulfils. It- celt in sacrifice. The figure of a dove on the other sym- bolises the Holy Spirit In Whose strength alono may rule.
The Crown ON the High
kings
Altar is the Crown of St. Edward. As the other bishopa move down to the Queen, the denn brings the Crown, resting on a purple cushion. The archbishop lifts it. Firmly he places it upon the heat of the Queen. All around her, like a scin- archbishop anoints the llating sen, there is silent Queen in the form of a movement 13 beers dasumo cross, first on the palm of their coronets, the barons their Сары arid the kings-of-arms each hand, then on the their crowns. The Abbey breast, and finally on the bursts into music from end to. crown of her head.
The Dean of Westminster At a signal from the roof of invests the Queen with the Abbey, the guns in the three priestly vestments Tower re-echo to those in St.
Fanfares a long white linen garment James's Park.
blown in the Abbey. (the Colobium Sindonis), belts ring out to the crowds the Supertunica, and the outside. Girdle.
silence as the The Queen has been con- echoes die away, the arch- secrated to her great office, blahop hands
the Queen #1 The sevenfold gifts of the Bible: "We present you with Holy Spirit have been this book, the most valuable thing that this world affords." given.
We are now carried back to and the days of knighthood" ancient chivalry as the Golden Spurs are brought for Queen to touch. A sword, first place
carried to the the
upon
of
ber
Queen,
the
.and.
In sudden
The Sacring is over.
aro and its
The Sacrament
•
which
faldstool
one
removes · her No sooner has the Queen the Holy Communion. After kings, priests, and prophets,
Altar, Is THE Queen knows, the terrible conscquences Dr Fisher will be 66 the taken her seat on entering the
Crown *and offers the that follow
thus archbishop Bread and Wine for
· Epistle ("Love the to teach and govern thy symbolising that for her power the Holy Communion, crumples and the ocean it its month before the
than she moves to four brotherhood. Fear ing.
God, people Israel; Bless thy ser- of life and death she is respon now, proceeds. corners of the "theatre" or Honour the Queen") and want Elizabeth now to be sible to. God. - sanctuary.
the Gospel ("Render unto anointed with this oil and neck, for she is "yoke-follow" a young wife and mother will A stole is placed round her In deeply moving simplicity Acclamationa will ring Caesar the things that are consecrated Queen....So with Christ in the carrying out meet alone. At a out as the archbishop re Caesar's, and to God the is the meaning of this act responsibilities, Golden near the Altar sho receives peats four times: "Sirs, I things that are God's'), expressed in prayer.
eagles aro woven into the from the archbishop the Sacra- present unto you Queen there is proclamation of the The Queen is disrobed of material which makes the Im ment of the Body and Blood of Elizabeth, your undoubted faith of Christians the her crimson cloak by the around her shoulders. It is
perial Mentle, now placed Christ. Queen." The trumpets will Nicene Creed.
Great Chamberlain, four-square to suggest the four with the young Queen; Thy
The King of Kings is sound.
"Here, for a time, the ̈ ̈ and moves" across to the quarters of the world, all sub- Will be done," she says as she
fect to the sovereignty Holy Communion stops. An ancient Chair of King Ed-
of presents herself "her soul anti Christ.
body to be a living sacrifice." the Queen kneels, the choir ward. As she sits, Knights A large ball of pure gold, And the Coronation of Queen sings softly: "Come Holy of the Garter come forward the Orb, surmounted by a cross Elizabeth, It has taken place," THIS is the Accession Ghost, our souls in carrying a rich pall of cloth
ratifled by the welcome spire.... 15
of gold, suspended, on of the people and by the The solmen, central act of poles, and this they place Queen herself as she solemn "Sacring" is beginning. directly over her, hiding ly repeats the traditional
The archbishop takes a her from view. oaths to preserve the solid gold model of an eagle, Christian religion of her nine inches high: the Am-
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MURDER
New York. Domi-
TAX-STEVEDORE
EXVDORed
the State Crime Commis-- sion.
On coth, he said he lost his New York dock job for refusing to murder, a milk roundsman for his foreniant, ex-conviet. John Applegate.
had
The milk roundaman alashed "Apples in a bar-room brawl. He had to go to hospital.
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SASSENACHS FALL
FOR HAGGIS
By J. W. Taylor
it,
.
London, Feb. 8. rool thingnons of this wartime The Sassenachs are cash utility stuff now, Almost every- ing in on a haggis boom. where it le mode nowadays with Not only Scottish om nothing but the best going into which is a big help to the #competence, discipline and housewives in all parts of small madt ration, and house-
from positive loyalty"
every south of the Border, have Kingdom have been quick to wives up and down the United one of them. The diplomatic service is in for a shake-up. boon quick to notice that'
this, hence the terrine de- spot for the first time since the mand for haggis in the inst, fow NATURAL vision, the three-war REAL haggis is being months."
dimensional film system which requires picturegoers to produced in quantity.
All along the 1953 hagzis wear spectacles, apparently, is They think he may not be wiming-out in Hollywood, over
This has been redected in tra demands for Burna suppers. front are, reports of heavy ex- free long-alive, that is.
He is rivals, Cinerama,
the recent Burns Night celebrations One Northeast firm of babon turned-against the underworld, British Triopticon system. Three by Spots at home and abroad, curers have reported that their and the underworld will want
major studios have now an- They marked the greatest con recent production of higgis was vengeance.
nunca plons to make feature cumption of hugtis since before several tong above nomad, and RITAIN'S Mary Mannering Pictures in caturat vision the war. For weeks before the stock still of the necconry In
that though they have fair. is dead, at 77. At the turn THE Queen's effect on an celebrated 25th night, butchers gredients, they could do with of the century she was a great American
described and provisions merchants yet. more to meet orders still Broadway and West End stur. And Genova sald ho
by Page H. Porter in a letter throughout Scotland were coming ia, being driven to his own execute years after her marriage to actor from Heawall, Cheshire,
Said producer David Bolasco, to the editor of Timo magazine inundated, with orders for the ilon when the driver relented, James K
A leading. Abeltzen butcher, let him out of the car and told tol of the day:
Hackett, a matineo "Not many months ago I came "great chieftain," and a feature who has kept to the old recipe of
Sha bad a him to vaulab. 19
hero
this year's with, among other things, of dignited
trade was the sheeps liver, heart and hugs, marvellous beauty
slightly hostile curiosity about avalanche of reservations from with meet and enlou, complains was une the A Genova vanished again pretrato hot beautiful musteri
FTER ho gave this testimony and queenly. She
mooning of this royalty people in all parts of the United that musts of the minionhe approachable to those unable to business," he writes.
Kingdom who had, no claim to receives for his production of "Not without
surprise, Scottish ancestry. Orders from basis frozen, with all -- the found in myself the mamo affee ebrood, too, have surpassed all offal removed before it is shipped ** to the country. His production Bilding in the courtroom walte
Docrons are using TV mois lobate respect, for the Queen, previous figures.
is revicted only by the shortage and at the same ting an under- in their offices in place of sanding of the English, perhaps Ing: to testifyero bosses of the old dog-cured magazines to the British, and what they been chiefly eaten by Scots or enterier higgs, he prefers to In former years haggis bas zould make more by producing of oliveg "plunka", Although he
Genova old stevedors union, keep walling patients patient. Local 824. Some dre
yalue and will work for." fathers and mothers attending gamis production and stick to the
Burns suppers or Saint Andrew's all resipe, in
for plasile surgery. Later, poe one else machine-gunned milk. roundsman In West 47th the Street
Was
this time through the courtroom sudo doar, surrounded by pollco- men.
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convicts. They sio noctised of so London and US, cinkussien, giTHE silkworm', turns”.... say" | dinners, but tho' demand now. Among his late Old Year ord running the union at the pistol, and consulates is 200 other
cities around the world a mes it reports a big comeback of Indicates that the haggis is re- was one from, a Scot intend
the Wall Street Journal persisting throughout the year point.
Cunard's plorar kandi "John Foster Dulles has been dromes.
Tha, newspagnew way, Gelova flashed.
for women's tuming
Mike was bent on to savants, of him, with synthetic rayons and orion,lly dinner
Saites: surviving 'a thook through. will get his reward: suspmalon / I§ warned the 16,800 - digió. UB, output is up. from 9,000,000 Says one large purveyor of ik the Customs, wo khuda kha Vakila of • got sentence. imposedă" for: matic employee of his Foreign yuria in 1948 to 28,000,000 in "People" jhays: "been quick - to: could taken indretske gana ATEN.
Ministry that he will dornand, 1952.00
notice that baggis today is tho soval Buah suppor.
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