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辣拾登零仟式萬式第 BED HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1929.

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GETTING NEWS OF THE KING'S ILLNESS.

IMPRESSIONS OF LIFE AT COURT DURING RECENT "CRISIS.

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rooms as well as half a dozen dining-rooms scattered about the great rambling corridors.

A Real. Queen.

While the King lay" sick, the sola direction of the Palace fell on the already overburdened shoulders" of Queen Mary, When she had at- tended to her own and the King's correspondence, signed innumerable documents, attended meatings of ther Council of State in which the London (U.P.).—Midnight at, exidence, the newspapermen found acted for her Royal husband, the Buckingham Palace. Six doctors themselves accorded the tare privi would set about arranging the daily leave the sick-chamber of King legs of "being accepted as part of route of the Palace, never falter George as the chimes of nearby Big the daily life of the Palace. Thus, never weeping even during "Every inch a Queen! the Ben begin to sound. Simultaneons-old Royal servants, many of whom the darkest hours. ly, four newspapermen who have had served during three reigns,

"We do hope the King doesn't been sheltering over a log fire from took them into their circle. They newspapermen wrote about her. the swirling London fog jump from were included among the privileged die was the most frequent phrase listeners when reminiscences were drowsiness.

passed around.

"Bullet-operation successfully performed on the King" in the typed message handed to them by the Press. Secretary of the Palace. After that first to the 'phones!

on the lips of the Royal servitors "When a new master comes there are always changes in the House- hold. His Majesty has been a good master to us."

Controlling The News,

to

Court Remdalicerces. The visit of the old Shah of Per sin, who thought he could act as he did at home and ordered an Traditions And Telephones. offending member of his staff to be

To get news out of Buckingham Buckingham Palace is hedged hanged in the Palace grounds, was Palace beyond what was contained in the balletins was like trying to around with tradition, naturally recalled; another seryant remem enough, wherefore telephoning by bered & King of Montenegro, after bore through a steel wall. Some- Canton...Bop.

newspapermen from inside is pro-wards assassinated. who kept two times the doctors spoke, but what hibited under pain of immediate of his mountain subjects as guard they said amounted to nothing.

outside his door in the Palace, and The servants had been sworn Shamehen... Dep. 7.18 8.05 10.01) 10.38 11.27,11.48 308 489 5.47 6.16 6.40 6.50 6.57 11.35 3,15 4,4′ 554 6.25 - expulsion. Nor is it in keeping who could not be persuaded he was secrecy. Even on the two occasions 10.41 Barangahai.Dep, 7.25 8.19

10.47 12.00 8.90 4.50 5.58

with Court decorum for reporters Dep. 1.50 8.16

to scramble through the front en- safe, even in England. There were when the King was expected to die Market Dep. 7,40 8.28 10371

trance, risking collision with the stories of the numerous lunatics at ang momenta few nights be Tripe

7.44 8.31 10.34 Dep.

Prince of Wales or even the Queen, who succeed in entering the Palace fore the return of the Prince of Dep: 1.57 8.44 -- Bhatin Yazmati Dap, 8.11 9.58-

of Africa, rhd on the night when. A. 8.17 9.02 11.00 11.33 12.07 1248 4.07 5.36 6.44 7.00 720 7.82 They must take the passage deep to demand the Throne and their Wales after his dash from the heart

down under the Palace which brings place upon it as

the doctors operated there were them out into the open by a quieting!"

Human Trails Of Royalty.

only vague rumours within the side entrance, then sprint to the

The inside facts about Royal when the four reporters were in- Palace about what was happening. nearby private houses where they have arranged their special tele family life revealed some very side the Palace or the night of the phones.

human traits on the part of Bri tain's rulers Queen Mary, it was operation an official order eamed, mothers" not only her en prohibiting anyone from leav large family but the servants of ing or getting near a telephone.

All that could be done was to sit the household as well. An infal around the fire or watch the sen lible sign that her Majesty is in a trics, ghost-like in the fog, their temper is when she purses her lips bayonets shining under the flaring and whistles. King George has gaslampa at the gates. Then the always been a home-loving man. six grave-faced doctors emerged King Edward bad fits of temper from the sick room. when servants were scared, tó go

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In this way, the world got the news of the King during the long wecks be lay in his bedroom over looking St. James's Park, and nimost within sound of Piccadilly Circus, hab of the great Empire over which he rules. Is that same bedroom, King Edward died eigh teen years before..

Four Journaliste. Belected.

To keep abreast with the world's demand for hour to hour news of bis Majesty's progrees was a task which wracked the brains of every newspaper correspondent in Loa. don. Anxious to reduce the num- ber of callers at the Palace to a

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Life In The Palace.

minimum, the officials of the Royal Though debarred from entry to Household decided that only four the Royal Chambers, the news- journalists be selected for the privi-papermen had liberty of movement lege of night and day entrance past the great iron gates of the Palace.

Through these four the official bulletins and other items were cir- calated to the waiting world.

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SIR STANLEY MACHIN'S PROPHECY.

about a large section of the Palace, Imagine a giant ship at sea, and

"I cannot help feeling that there you have some idea of the interior are difficult and, perhaps, even of King George's London home black times ahead for England," Although placed in the very heart said Sir Stanley Machin at the sa Watchful Waiting.

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"Nobody knows better than those red-coated Gentlemen Ushers, these detectives, guardsmen, policemen, newspapermen were able to watch watchmen, tailors and other crafts-on the road the difficulties which the movements of the principal men and numerous higher officials. this country has to overcome," he actors in the drama next to the from the Chinese zoom decorated know that it will require every Above ground all is magnificence, said, "and commercial travellers King himself-every time the Queen or the Princes arrived or passed up with priceless Oriental panels where effort, from every citizen, to see to the sick chamber they were able the Queen and ber children dined that England's prosperity is de- to chronicle the fact, when the while the King lay sick a few rooms veloped and our position as a doctors, eleven in number, passed away, to the gold and glitter of great nation maintained."

Mr. Fred Coysh, secretary of the to their waiting limousines after the Throne Room and the broad

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Tired to exhaustion after weeks of almost continuous battling for the life of his King, Lord Dawson of Penn, senior Royal surgeon, was never failing in his ready smile and willing response to the interviewer After weeks of mixing in the stream of silk-hatted surgeons and other daily visitors to the Royal

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