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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, JULY 20, 1936,

Of

Gorgeous Pageantry

Coronation Next May

RITUAL THAT

HAS

SURVIVED

DEMOCRACY

London, July 12.

King Edward will be crowned England 38th monarch a year hence with some of the most gor goous pageantry surviving in Europe to-day.

to

Peers and peeresses, hereditary Boblemen whose claim Lake part in the proceedings on May 12, 1937 has been recognised by the Court of Claims and other distinguished guests, will as semble in fuil robes and regalia in Westminster Abbey to nwait the arrival of the King and the royal procession. The Primate, archbishops, bishops and the Dean and prebenduries of West- minster in their state roles, princes and princesses of the blood royal and the royal guests, and their spites await outside.

head a cap of crimson velvet, trimmed with ermine, while a short and suit- Cable sermon is given.

To the trains of an anthem the King. wearing the glorious coronation robes with their gold

Then comes the administering of images before und behind, passes the coronation eath. The Archbishop up the body of the church. Im-goes over to the King and asks, "Sir, mediately preceding him walk is your Majesty willing to take the

unth the chosen lords, bishopsti and dignitaries bearing royal regalia, the standards of the realm paten, the chalice and the Bible.

.

the!

Paning the throne, the King walka to the fuldstool before the Chair of State, on the routh side of the altar, and kneels in private prayer before taking his seat.

The King replies, "I am willing“.

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"Will you soirmaly promise and Britain Is "Home" To Him awear to govern the people of this United Kingdom of firent Britain and Northern Ireland, nul the Dominions thereto belonging, according to the Statutes in Parlament agre and the respective Law and Customs of the same?".

Again the King replies, "I solèmn- į

MAN WHO ITALY'S

WON WAR

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ONE

The Archbishop of Cant, hardly prontire sa to do". followed by the Lord Chancellor, Great Chamberlain, Land High Con- | Further promises regarding law, stable and Earl Marshal, preceded by | justice and mercy, the preservation of 'Garter King of Arms, goes in arms the rights of the Church, and mainten- j "the man who won the war for Italy," is returning to the four sides of the Theatre, Four ance of the laws of God are requested home to Britain. times, once from each side, he declares and given. in a loud voice: "Sirs, i here present unto you King Edward, the undoubted King of his Realm: Wherefore all you who are come this day to do your homage and service, Are you willing

to do the sumo?"

GOD

SAVE THE KING Four times the great audience, shouts "God save King Edward!”.

Then the King rises out of his chair, and assisted by the Lord Great Chamberlain, with the sword of state carried before him, walks to the altar. 1s hend is now uncovered, and he makes his solemn onth in the sight of the priple-his right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible-to observe his promises.

DISROBING THE KING A fanfare of trumpets heralds the procension of bishops who place" the ↑

Next comes the anointing. The Bible, paten and chalice on the altar. ! The lords who carry the regalla rass King is disrobed of his crimson robe nent, and with the exception of the by the Lord Great Chamberlain. His swords, hand to the Archbishop what cap of state is removed, and he walks

to the altar again. they carry, to place on the altar...

"The two golden spurs; the seeptre with the Cross, mgnifying kingly power and justice; the sceptre with the dove, signifying equity and mercy:torie Coronation Stone. the orb, St. Edward's Star, SL Ed- ward's Crewn, are handled over.

The four swords only remain. The sword of state, sword of mercy, and the pointed swords of temporal and -spiritum)-Justier,–

THOUSANDS KNEEL

Thousands heel while the service proceeds. The King places [IT]

Children

his

He is Sir Aldo Castellani. the Italian-born Harley-street specialist.

As Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Medical Corps, Sir Aldo has been largely responsible for the good health of the Italian troops.

VITAMINS MAY CURE PROBLEMS

OF SIGHT

Vienna, July 15. Sight trouble may be cured by feeding vitamines to the patients in a near future.

That the problem of sight is closely connected: with the vitamine contents of the retina ¡was discovered by years-long research work in Vienna's First

In his health report issued from, treatment was speedily devised to Addis Ababa ht reveals that there check causes in their early stages. Chemical Institute under the were no deaths from the tropical! In order to deal with sunstroke direction of Professor Hermann scourges of dysentery, typhoid, enses six air conditioned hospital Mark typhus, or relapsing fever onships were sent out th Eritreannd either of the the fronts.

known.

Cholera and plague were 217- Sunstroke proved to be the chief enuse of mortality, but

These she gave to

Italian Somaliland.

he

As far back as in 1876, the German, Cholera and typhoid were check. oculist Boll, in studying the eyes of ed by the use of vaccines which animals which had been kept in the in their retian a dark, discovered Sir Aldo himself discovered, and

reddish matter which

gradually by the sterilisation of all 'drinking faded out in the light. There, awaiting him, is the great

water.

Ball concluded from the changing chair of Edward the Confessor, with a fakistond before it. Below is the his. (Continued From Previous Column) Italy hnd 20,000 hospital beds character of this matter, which, for

appeared to him with, a

"vision golden in Abyssinin, but, according to Sirits colour,

terined Four Knights of the Garter hold eagle and a small vial of stone or Aldu, vaccination, inoculation, and crimson," that it must be connected over the King a rich pall of cloth of Klass in her land.

that amp hygiene were no successfull with the process of beeing.

The chemical nature of the "vision gold: The Dean of Westminster Hecket with the assurance

kings who were anninted win that hospital orderlies, having crimson"

remained, however, takes from the alter the ampula in

shonid be happy,

nothing to do, were released for secret for a number of decades in spite the shape of a golden eagle and, from j

of much research work, devoted to its _a_spoon, _pours holy oil through the The Archbishop anoints the King road-making and other tasks,

three-times-on-i-bead, on the Sir-Aldo-is-expected-home next study. It is said that Thomus a Becket was breast, and on the palms of both month. praying in banishment in a church in hands. After his blessing, the King rises and sits again in King Edward's Lyons, France, when the Virgin chair. The Knights of the Garter Cuitinurd at Font of Next Column)ive back the pall to the Tort

Chamberlain.

engle's mouth.

and the dietetic buttermilk

value of

don

Cledon

sid buttermilk

in powder form:

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Again the King rises and is robed by the Dean of Westminster in the colobium Randonis, a long white surs plice resembling the ancient dress of

WE KEEP MALTA-

the bishops, minde of white cumbric AND KEEP

Inced at the neck. A clase mall of cloth of gold, the supertunica, is placed over him, and he is girdled with the same materini,

The golden spurs nee brought from

IT SAFE

the altar, and the Lord Great Cham-UESTION-TIME

bet lain kneels down to touch the King's heels with them.

SWORD

OF STATE

The sword of state is handed to the Lord. Chamberlain, who places iL in' the traverse in St. Edward's Chapel, giving in exchange another in a scabbard purple velvet.

This is delivered to the Archbishop, who after laying it on the altar ani saying a prayer, girds the King with It, exhorting him to defend widows and orphans, restore the things that are gone to decay, stop the growth of iniquity, and punish and reform what is amiss.

Going to the altar, the King ungirds the sword, and offers it in its scabbard afterwards returning to the chair.

The peer who Arst received the sword then offers the price of it-one hundred shillings and having us redeemed it reveives it again from the Dean of Westminster. Ily draws it from its scabbard and for the rest of the ceremony carries it naked before the King.

Next in the investing with the armil and royal robe and the delivery of the orb, which is afterwards returned to the Dean to be laid on the altar.

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do

A

During the world war, physicians, examining soldiers in their ability to patral-service during the night. found out that night-blindness- nyotyplusis which is due to shortage of vision crimson" was invariably accompanied by a lack of vitamine in the patient.

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This was the first indication that vision might be connected with the presence of vitamines in the eye,

carried out

Careful investigatioether with E.

by

Brunner Dr. Utto Harroni and W, Kleinau in Vienna's First Chemical Institute, as Brunner pointed out 12 recent lecture, reven]. spot- that the coloured matter of the "vision crimson" consists of vitamines inor of substances, closely connectedl

with vitamines,,

***

so-called "Beta-Carotin" was | found, belonging to the category of

which are "pro-vitamines"

trans- formed by the body into vitamines, "Beta-Carolin"

connected with Vitamine A.

light was turned Parliament recently on three persistent rumours, ·

--Britain could not hold Multa in time of war.

the

Sir Samuel Hoare (First Lord of

Admiralty-

Dr. Bronner and his enllaboraters "I am gelul of the opportunity to further found a yellow colouring matter "Flavin" which they believe to contradict such reports.

The Admiralty have no inten, be identical with Vilamine B, and two ten of abandoning Malto as the further colouring substances "Lumi- principal naval base in the Medi-davin"

And

Lumichrom" inte terranean and the headquarters of which Vitamino B is decomposed. the Mediterranean Fleet,

under the influence of light.

view

"I would never say I was fully They also discovered traces of the satisfied with any defence position, anti-acorbut Vitamine C which does but I would state categorically that not seem to be connected directly we will certainly take every practical with the absorbtion of light by the means of making its defences secure øya, but which has against any possible attack,

an important. 2-Cairo negotiations for a

bearing upon the metabolism.

Because of the infinitestinal quanti Anglo-Egyptian treaty have been ties of coloured matter, contained in brought to a standstill by Britain's the retina, the researches *milliary demands. ·

extremely difcult, for instance, not Said Mr. Elen:

less than 3,800 bovino eyes had to be "There is not a word of truth in analyzed to produce 2.7 milligrams of chrystallized "Lumilßavin."— United

it

"I do not think it is in the public Press. interest that such suggestion, should be made."

were

3. Recent visits of pon. Ribbentrop THE QUEEN MARY

Hitler's roving Ambassador, to London and Dulfast are not with- ont political significance.

THE GREAT MOMENT The great moment of the actual coronation is near. The ring, symbol of kingly dignity, is placed on the King's Anger. The glove is put on,

Sir Philip Sassoon, Under-Socre- and the Archbishop delivers the tary for Air, was questioned, in par- sceptre with the cross into the King's ticular, on meetings between vúa, right hand. The other sceptre is Ribbentrop and Air Marshat Sir Ed- given Into his left,

ward_Ellington, Chief of Staff of the Finally the Archbishop, standing Air Force, last month. before the altar, takes the crown and Why had these meetings been per- prays while the King bows his head. [mitted?

The King returns to King Edward's ohair, the Archbishop the othor Bishops come from the altar, and the

crown is reverently placed on the King's head.

KILLS A WHALE

70FT MONSTER · HIT

On Board The Queen Mary,

At Sea, July 12. The liner Queen Mary killed a No question of permission, Sir whale this morning. Philip replied. After all, the cou- We were ploughing along at 20 pls were fellow guests in a private knots whon a huge black carense, House.

fully 70ft. in length, suddenly bobbed Dissatisfied, M.P.s called. on Mr. up out of the water right in the

course of the ship.

Immediately the silence of the Ab-|Baldwin. bay is broken. The vast assembly The Premier rose heavily. " A few seconds Inter the bows of shouts at the top of their voices, "God should like to say here that I cannot the Queen Mary struck the whale. save the King!". Poers and Kings of understand the objections that have There was no tremor in the liner. Arms put on their coronets, the been raised.

A fountain of blood shot upwards and trumpets blare forth and the great "In my own view, in the present the ship's creamy wake was turned to guns at the Tower of London boom to state of Europe, social and friendly crimson for a considerable distanée, the world that Edward Is King, in- meetings between Buch men are Soveral other whalos have been deod.-United Presa.

wholly beneficial."

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