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Coronation

Lights

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1953.

A Great Army Of Squatters

EN

LONG LIVETERN

Last night--Coronation Eve-Hongkong became a blaze of light as the Colony's illuminations in celebration of leday's great event were turned Upper picture shows the silhouettes of Royal Navy craft outlined in lights, with the Holt's Wharf lights in back- ground. Below is the illu- minated tramear which ran until a Jato hour and was the centre of admira. tion of the crowds throng-

Great Day Will

Start For Queen

6.30 A.M.

At

London, June 2.

Takes Over In London Happy-Go-Lucky Crowds Camp On Procession Route

By JOHN DUDMAN)

London, June 2.

Prince Charles

To Attend

London, June 2.. Frince Charles, four- year-old heft to the throne. will allend his mother's Coronation in Weximinaler Abbey today dressed in a simple silk party sult. He will not wear a coronel.

The sult, consisting of silk shirt and shorts, will be in quiet contrant with the splendid dresses and robea and sem-studded coruneta or the surround- ing nobility.

The chubby little Prince is expected to sit with his grandmother. the Queen Mother. In the Royal Box. ----Reuter,

Special

A great army of squatters built tents of oil Coronation

skins, blankets and ground sheets last night as drenching rain swept London's garlanded streets. Dozens of tiny encampments sprang up along the Coronation route when dark clouds rolled over the city. The world was theirs, grinning and waiting patiently for the pageant to start.

There was a long night ahead of them and they just didn't care. They looked like refugees. huddled together to keep warm. Their blankets were soaked, their sandwiches limp and damp.

They

The rain lashed them in heavy squalls. They put up their coat collars and pulled their blankets around them.

But this great crowd of happy-1 and began to bed down beski go-lucky Elizabethans smiled, the massive statues of lions, laughed and sang when the rain streamed down.

Cockneys cracked Jokes, "Nover mind the weather, never mind

the rain," chanted one who brought his entire family to Trafalgar Square to camp out, for the night,

Canadians, wearing thick fly Ing

chuckled good Jackets, humouredly. Coloured folk from Africa and Jamaica settled down dourly, shivering now and then as rain trickled down their necks. Americans in blue and grey jeans spread out their sleeping bags and tried to snatch some sleep.

Dozens of people clambered up the base of Lord Nelson's

Stamps

London, June 2. Four new Coronation stamps to cover surface and world, air mail postage over the ก Coronation air Hetter form and a

specini Coronation postmark are announced by the Post Oflice today.

Only once before tras the Post Ofee Irgued Coronation stamps-In 1937 when a special 3d stamp was produced for the Coronation of the late King George VI.

The

be on

COMMUNAL BED

new stamps, which will Around the square's crush

sate in Britain's post barriers they were Right in the middle were three

12 deep. 22, 4d, Is. 3d, and is. 6d.

offices on Wednesday, are for

Three of them are munal bed of blankets tied upQueen and one, the 1s. 3d., con-

Cockneys In a young

designed com- around а photograph of the with rope.

Edward Lyford,

tains a portrait drawn from 8, and his photographs of Her Majesty. brothers, 5-year-old Andrew

This designed by Edmund and Arthur,

Jaughed 9

at the Dulac, who died a few days ago, crowd as them up for the night.

their mother tucked shows the Queen in full face wearing St. Edward's Crown Then she hitched up an oil skin and the ermine robe she will

t and made a tent over them.

wear

today's Coronation Everyone made their camp ceremony. Dasks and bottles of whisky and brandy. They were surrounded by puddles.

Elizabeth Windsor, to be crowned Queen to. monument in Trafalgar Square around piles of food, vacuum

ing the streets-(Picturesday, will be wakened at 6.30 a.m. by the drawing of curtains and the soft "Good marning Maam" of

by Staff Photographer),

Australians

Bide Time

her Scottish personal maid.

The maid, Mary MacDonald, will bring tea. When with a curtsey she will leave the Queen alone -probably to say a personal Coronation Day prayer as her father and grandfather did before her on the day of their crowning.

White she sips her tea, Eliza- j At she cats, the Royal Piper,

read b selection of Pipe-Major They stole a leopard skin worn beth will

Alex MacDonald, by a drum major of the Aus- | the flood of telegrams and letters will parade in his kilted uniform tralian band when the second of congratulation pouring into beneath the window, his pipes Battalion of the Royal Aus-Buckingham Palace-hose from skirling a cay tune.

Regiment arrived in her family, and most intimate

friends. Korea last March.

Korea June 1, Thus, time the New Zealanders started it.

tralian

They followed by stealing a Kangaroo from the crest at the base of the Australiaast pole.

She will breakfast a room nag-overlooking the pale gardens and skim the Coronation éditions The Australians bide their of the morning newspapers with tino until Coronation. Eve be- news of the great crowds al-

fore they stole the New Zen-ready encamped on Lunden's Band Mate

pavements in greet her.

HUSBAND'S GIFT

At breakfast her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, will present her with his Coronation gift Bikely to be a piece of jewel-

lery.

олее

there w be no

IN

TROOPS

KOREA TO

CELEBRATE

celebrations.

Some who came in only their raincoats set on the kerbside as the gutters filed up with rain. All around them double decker buses, cars and cyclists Inched nose to fall around the square.

HIGH-SPIRITED

All four stamps are twice the size of the ordinary stamps and are printed on paper embody- and the Royal Cypher. ing a watermark of the Crown

2

FIRST OCCASION

Over 2,600,000 sheets of 120 stamps, have been issued, 230,000 cheets of the 40, 00,000 sheets of the 15. Bd. 'and '04,000 sheets of the 15. 08.

More will be printed and The Mall, the broad highway issued but the total number leading to Buckingham Palace, will depend on the demand. Seoul, June 1.

resembled a tribol Eighth Army weather experis Mothers and fathers made tents that 19. 3d. and 15. Od. postage camp. This will be the first occasion today predicted a fine day

for their tomorrow for the Coronation

children under the trees, stamps liave been issued in Bri- celebrations of

But when in October the the Common grouped themselves together be-lain.

side the huge stands.

aro wealth Division.

Coronation Issues

with- After several days of rainy were there, too, determined

White haired grandmothers drawn, they will be replaced weather the Division was today the more to sit it out to see the those denominations as a

all by ordinary sized stamps of per- making last-minute preparations Queen set off for Westminster manent series. for a big parade tomorrow which will

From June 3 until the end of Abbey be the feature of its

today, For

Coronation

Many of these thousands have the month, letters and postcards The stamp- State-papers-for-the-Queen The Commander-of the-Roynaiready spent one night in the passing through plunge

were grubby, concelling machines at the 700 into after breakfast Artillery in Korea, Brigadier G. The men but so much else to do that in S. Grigson, said today artillery their chins already dark with major post offices in the country will be impressed with a special A Now Zealand officer said: Tu will probably be a fairly most other households it would from Britain, New Zealand and one day's stubble. "We hope to get our flag hearty

Coronation postmark. breakfast. For the be a heetle chaotic morning.

But the weather never killed Canada would fire 1 21-gun back before Queen Elizabeth's Queen, a healthy young woman

The Od air letter form will In the Palace, however, every-salute to the Queen tomorrow.

their spirits. And soon an even-bear a double-size Coronation coronation but in any case we who does not suffer from nerves. thing is planned for the Queen Artillery

withining sun came out to glint on the stamp of the face value of Gd. which even on such a day, is no with such minute precision that earshot of the Chinese lines willer coronets hanging from its colour wil be maroon. to celebrate Coronation Day"-liever in starting the day on

that happens around be fring blanks Everything

soaring arches over the road. fruit Juice. and Ury toast diet, Reuter.

her will be like eluckwork. If

Correspondents from all over As night fell, the sound of will be: 21⁄2d magenta red, d there are any hysteries they will the world moved out of Seoul laughter and singing came blut 1s 3d olive-green, is d be kept off-stage and Elizabeth today up to the Commonwealth through the darkness-Reuter, steel bluo.-Reuter. will not know about them. Division's Special Press Camp.

Her makis will clothe her in the satin dress especially made by her dressmaker, Norman Hartnell.

for the Coronation, Her hairdresser, M. Henri Jolrin, will be in attendance to put the final touches to her coiffure. A beauty specialist will apply her make-up.

have a spare one we can 1SC

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS:

3 Journey (4).

7 Vagrant (G),

8 Way out (4).

9 Cut (4),

10 Flatter (7).

12

Lofty (4),

Is Declarea solemnly (5).

18 Simmer (4).

19 Correspond (5),

21 Willow (5).

22 Small horze (4).

23 Olaw (6).

20 Munrow (4),

20 Rests (7).

30 Tuna (4).

31 Transaction (4).

32 Worth (5).

33 Fustomed ((4)

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1 Houghtiness (5).

2 Strive to equal (7).

4 Renovato (5).

5 Retained (4)

Eminence (4).

D Put away (4).

11 Ward oft (5).

13 Confederate (4),

14 Deposits (4).

10 Bend down (5).

17 Frotic (4). 18 Sediment

· (4). 20 Cross (7),

11. 22 Excuse (4).

24 Get up (5).

25 Send (5),

27 Thought (4),

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GOLDEN COACH

Her dladem will be placed on her hair, the robe in which she will drive to Westminster Ab- bey fastened about her.

she

will

Then In a lift descend from her second floor

suite

and step out to the inner

courtyard of the Palace.

The

The American-rub Armed Forces Radio network in Korea, which has stations all over the peninsula, today broadcast that the Coronation will be relayed at 21.15 local time tomorrow night,

Army newspapers devoted pugeo to stories about the Coronation and its significance. Reuter,

Nationalists

band of the Grenadier Make Trouble

Guards will be assembled

there ready to strike up

National

her cars,

the

Anthem 35 soon as

Belfast, June 1.

Irish Nationalists swooped in she appears.

There, waiting for her, will many towns today, tearing down he her golden coach and her bunting and ordering house-

to #holders husband in his uniform of

take down their Admiral of the Fleet. And out- Coronation decorations.

For several weeks-Nationalists side the Pulace gates the noise of the crowd will be already in have been campaigning against Queen Elizabeth's Ule, which Includes Northern Ireland.

At Cookstown, County Tyrone, the Nationalists

to objected strect decorations. Today they were found torn down. The Town Council ordered the bunt- ing to be replaced under police: protection.

The time will be 10.26 a.m. and the great day will have begun.--Reuter,

Lotus Lilies

From HK

Windows of houses flying the Union Jack in Londonderry in

London, June 2. the North of Ireland and Flowers from all over the Toomebridge, County Lon- world are adding the final touch donderry, were smashed during

of colour to Coronation London, the week-end.

The lotus blossom of India,

Later Belfast police said con- ; Easter les from Bermuda and diffons generally were "peace- orchilds from Singapore line the ful" and that no incidents in- Coronation route and decorate volving

the Commonwealüs

stand out-

side Westminster Abbey,

Nearly every Dominion and

colony has contributed.

From Australia comes a quar-

the illegal Irish Re- had been re- publican Army ported. Houter.

ter ton of mixed flowers, from Comet Jet Resumes

Trinkb 800 111les, Hongkong

has sent 40 dozen · lótus lilles.

Johannesburg, Junb 1.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across.~1 Afraid,,7 Elion, and Jamaica 20 dozen mixed A Comet fet liner owned by

the British Overseas Airways left here today. A floral umbrella of jasmine Corporation

0 Sidip, 10 Seplo, 11 Ends, 13 Dispersing. 13 Term, 18 Pair, 10 blooms. Surrendero, 22 Tosk, 24 Gulde, 25 false, 20 Glen, 27 Treats,

Down--2 Forms, 3 Ample, 4 Desist, 5 Repented, 8 Load, 6 and orchids. is omong decora- after being grounded because Hingh-12-Sumps, 13 Depot, 14 Perusing, 17 Isnic, 10 Arrest, tons outside the Abbey,--Réu- of engine trouble on Friday. 20 Nurde, 21, Ealet, 23 Ogic,

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Reuter.

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