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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, APRIL

29, 1937

CORONATION

IN LESS THAN FORTNIGHT

Most Brilliant Pageant In History Of British Empire

MILLIONS OF

.

PEOPLE WILL

CEREMONY

SEE

LONDON, APR. 30.

IN 12 DAYS FROM THIS DATE, KING GEORGE VI, 39TH MONARCH OF ENGLAND, AND HIS QUEEN, ELIZABETH, WILL BE CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

It will be the biggest and costliest pageant in Eng. land's history.

On May 12, sightseers from all corners of the British Empire and from most nations of the earth, whose view- points will have cost them £1,600,000, will watch the great gold statecoach, drawn by eight-harnessed, cream-colour- ed horses, go by from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey, and back again.

Along gaily-decked streets, on sanded roads, through tumultuous cheering, it will ride in a glittering procession of kings, princes, sultans, envoys, statesmen, famous regiments and military bands,

In the brilliantly lit Abbey, a privileged concourse of 7,700 will participate in the historic coronation ceremony, a ceremony dating from unknown monks in the 14th century.

Schoolchildren will have a hollday. and it will be a bank holiday for the crowds, which will be larger than at any previous national rejoicing.

There will be warships, "floating hotel" iners and festooned luxury yachts in the Thames; all-night milk bars in the paries; flood-lighting on

The long ceremony will not be over until 2.30 p.m. Peers will be wear- ing 19-pound uniforms; the peeres-) nes white and crimson velvet robes, some of them 200-years-old looms, will weigh ten pounds more.

heir- or

The Queen will wear a gown of

fin

the most ambitious scale сует al-deep Ivory white duchesse salin, cm- tempted; dances, lens and carnivals braidered in gold thread with

and open emblematic all-over design, and a in working-class streets

robe of royal purple velvet, fined Children, aged people, blind, un-with ermine. fiet 18-foot train will poor will receive need the support of eight attendants.

spaces.

employed and inoney gifts.

Foreign guests will be entertained

The King will wear 2 robię ot cloth of gold, embroidered

with

to a long round of banquets, stale coloured emblems, and lined with balls and royal garden parties,

white satin.

Little

Princes

Elizabeth

will Special coronation coins and coro-watch the ceremony, sitting beside nation 1d stamps will be issued.

Zero hour for those who want a Queen Mary, in the Queen-Mother's good view is the evening of May 11. box. Elizabeth will be wearing By midnight the six-mile long pro- niniature robe and coronet. cessional route, with seating accom

medailon for half a million, will be well lined, and milk bars and long buffels In the parks and behind the stands will supply the hungry with all-night meals.

Eighty-five thousand spectators will occupy 27 miles of seats in three miles of silver-grey and scarlet stands put up by the Office of Works at a cost of £70,300, and sold at half cost price-129. an uncovered seat, and IBs.'n covered seat.

Privileged occuplers will include 1,800 members of the co-operative societies, members of the Aghing services, holders of Victoria and Cross, medallsis, pensioners veteran fighting men.

the

£52 FOR SEAT Other not-so-lucky onlookers will have paid anything from £5. 4s. to 252-for-their-seats..

Renters of houses and apartments on the route will have a good view £2,000 (a at a cost ranging from peer's house for a month) to £000 (an apartment for two for a month), and £900 (a private room with balcony, for six people, meals with

champagne thrown in).

All-night subway trains will be run to take this army of a million sightseers, including 180,000 overseas visitors, to the scene of pageantry. At midnight police will check the entry of automobiles into the Corona- tlon area, extending from Maryle- bone road to Grosvenor road, and from Kensington Gardens to Ludgate Hill. Motorists will be guided by 10,000 signs; pedestrians by coloured

maps:

Abbey guests-nobles, baronets, knights, bishops, judges, statesmen, empire and foreign representatives, members of Parliament, "Civil Service chiefs and heads of national life will have to be up early, too. The doors close at 0

Some of the 1,500 peers, peeresses and dowagers will make a pictures- to Westminster by que Journey launch

B.m.

START AT 10.30 A.M.

Among the guests in the blue and heraldic gold abbey, hung with designs and tapestries and covered with soft carpet, will be:

King Christian of Denmark, King Boris of Bulgaria, King Haukon of Norway, King George of Greece," Princess Juliana of Holland, and Prince Bernhard,

Crown Prince Michael of Rurnania, Prince Chichibu, brother of the

Emperor of Japan,

The Emir Saud, son of the King of Saudi Arabia,

Astaou. Wosan, eldest son of Halle

Selassie,

The Emir of Transjordan, Pales- tine.

King Yela III, paramount chief of Balotsiland, native reserve in North ern Rhodesia,

Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet foreign commissar,

Dr. Kung stang-Hei-Chinese finance minister.

A special mission from the Pope, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden,

The Prince of Preslav,

Decorations erected in Victoria Street, London, for the Coronation.

tach

coronation, will be lined with 32,-made to the blind, and there will be 500 troops from all parts of the an extra allowance of 2s. for outdoor British Empire,, and garlanded with relief recipients and 15. for thousands of pounds worth of water- child. proof decorations.

St. John Ambulance Brignde will On duly 60 surgeons, 500 have officers. 5,000 non-commissioned oilers and men, 166 nursing offleers, and 1,400 sisters. London will be gay with:

50 MILES OF BUNTING Fifty miles of bunting, thousands of flags, roadway islands of while, blue and gold; banners, streamers, stand- ards and festoons in red, jade Rice garter blue, gold and white, rweep- Ing from side to side of the road, or draping the sidewalks: flowers, coloured aprons and flags on govern- ment buildings,

GIFTS TO CHILDREN There will be: A

In- for every gift of 2s.

and 1s sured unemployed person

each young dependent child for (cost £100,000).

Free current for municipal flood- lighting schemes given by the Lon

Electricul under- don-Associates takings.

A day's holiday (or a day's pay if they work) for the 70,000 workers of the London Passenger Transport Board, and for employees of railroad "Elg Four

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Secret Of Old Age- "Smile"

Vienas, Apr. 21. The secret of longevity is held in two words "keep snüling!"

This is the upshot of experiences, told by four healthy nonagenarluns in this city of waltz, wine and Schubert songs.

Bernhard Wold, 94, the Nestor umong Vienna's lawyers, still starts his day with a lusty song, to his own delight and to the disgust of his family and of his neighbours.

In contrast to all hygienic rules, he ents micat three times daily und

No leave for a week for metro-smokes like a chimney; for more than politan police..

sixty years his average daily quota

On Victoria Embankment, canapled

37,000 London. A week of gula broadcasting by was 18 to 20 black cigars; since about in red and green, County Council school-children will the B... watch the King and Queen pass.

Soon after their arrival at Buck-

George ingham Palace King

and Queen Elizabeth will appear on the balcony in their robes and crowns, to neknowledge the cheers of the multitude.

*

Brailled Coronation programmes for the blind.

Floating hotels in the Thames necoinmodaling 10,000 visitors.--

Hundreds of railway coach cam- pers pitched around London.

Food tickets for dinners at some hotels to prevent" "storming",

ten years he has somewhat reduced his tobacco consumption.

A little horseback riding and moderate hiking were his sports, and he still has his daily little walk

Once in his life he was ill; for two days he suffered trom tummy ache following a heavy meal on his 85th birthday.

Wald still claims, to possess all of his natural teeth.

In the evening the King will The Count of Flanders, brother of

broadcast to the Empire. Colonies

A Post Office savings bank-book the King of the Belgians, brother of and dominions will contribute to the and £1 for babies born in Acton on

B.B.C.'s special coronation alght Coronation Day.

A ten-weeks Coronation opera Rejuvenation? "Ask me again on the King of the Bulgarians,

Crown Prince Frederick of Den-programme, and dance music will

till 1 a.m.

scasne by Sir Thomas Beecham. my 100th birthday," says Wald,

Thousands of acorns

the Scores of buildings will be floodlit, mark,

His Me rule was and is: early to Royal Park, Windsor, planted In including Buckingham Palace, James's Palace, Big Ben, Westmins

planted you want to reach my age, shaped ter Abbey, the Royal Mint, Admiral-, very part of the Empire, and shield-bed and curly to rise, plus fun, "It ty. Arch, Nelson's Column, the Houses throughout Britain in commemora- man, don't miss a laugh where you of Parliament, the Tower of London. Lion. Hampton Court Palace, the County

Prince Mohammed Ali, prince re- gent and cousin of the King of Egypt,

Crown Prince Paul of Grecce, The Amir Abdul Ilah, uncle of the King of Irak,

Prince Jean of Luxembourg, Crown Prince Olaf, and Crown Princess Martha, of Norway,

-Frince Chula Chakabongs, cousin of the King of Slam,

and

Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf Crown Princess Louise, of Sweden, Seif al Islam Hussein, son of the King of the Yemen,

Prince Paul and Princess Olga, of Yugoslavia,

Count Dino Grendi, Italian bassador to Britain, Mussolini's only representative.

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groups of

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trom

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can get it," he told on interviewer.

The ancient windmill at Mount- Hall, the Mansion House, and Broad- nessing, Essex, will be acquired as oldest physician, enjoys perfect health

Coronation memorial. casting House.

Dr. Leopold, Ehrenhaft, Vienna's with 91 yenes. His prescription for about a long life is "don't worry yourself!"

The

Home ficet, floodlit, and

CORONATION BABIES dressed overall, will be opun

Babies born on Coronation day at

His favourite dish was and still is destroyers and Hutton, Essex, will receive one sightseers in the Thames-battleships off Southend, and submarines in London Pool, near

each, guinea

from an anony-boiled beef. He smokes and drink London Bridge,

In the drab little streets in the mous local resident. Flood-lighting beer and has never practised any

of selected buildings will continue sport.

Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria's must am-working-class districis, brightened until Whit-Monday, May 17. Twelve

prominent musical composer, who with coloured lights, Bags, bunting marquees in the parks will be open and streamers, open-air tea parties, all night for the benefit of sightseers: celebrated his 90th birthday recent- races, songs and dances will be held. Street decorations will remain in

wine at ly keeps himself by place until midnight,

27-11 VOICE OF CONCOURSE

May

luncheon and beer in the evening, FOR MANY DAYS

they last. storts with the The ceremony

by tho The day. following their corona- More than 50 bus routes, served plus a daily walk of 50 minutes. presentation of the King At 10.30 am. the procession starts Archbishop of Canterbury; and the tlon will be the start for the King and by 2,000 buses, will be completely The main life-prolonger, however, The brilliant cavalcade, including / Volce of the great concourse accialm- | Queen of a long round of lunches, reorganized. Instead of the normal in his opinion, is a happy marital life,

ing their King will be carried to the banquets, receptions, state balls, routes across central London, they In this respect he resembles

Zaro Agu, who waiting crowds on the stands and to royal garden parties, courts, Investi- will run to a ring of 19 special Turkish patrlacch

They will attend terminals within the Coronation area, ascribed his longevity to his marry- the naval review at Spithead, and First bus: 6am. Trams and trolley-ing habit, and who, when he died at visit Scotland and Wales. Their buses start 4 a.m. May programme includes:

Thursday, May 13: State Banquet.

from the Palace.

an escort of Life Guards and Yeomen

Again will come the shout "God Save the King", when, towards the

tures and levees.

-SUBWAY FLOWERS

the

the alleged age of 157, was about to take his 17th wife, while Kienzi still Arst enjoys marital bliss with his love,

of the Guard, several foreign millions of listeners the world over. monarchs, six sultans, 14 European Four times the cry "God Save King and Eastern princes, Dominion pre George" will be raised. mlere, home and foreign state

statesmen, will proceed in three processions to the West entrance of the Abbey by end of the ceremony the crown is Felday, May 14: Dinner by the Ships of the navy will be dressed at the Foreign overall and illuminated. At mid- way of: The Mall. Admiralty Arch, placed on the King's head. Nobles Foreign Minister

Alexander Demetrius Goltz, 92, a Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parlia

at Buckingham day all ships will fire a Royal Saluto same time will don their office. Court ball at the ment-street, St. Margaret's street, caranets, drums and trumpets will Palace.

and grog will be issued to the com- prominent painter, considers a cheer- ful mental disposition the best wen- and Broad Sanctuary,

sound and guns at the Tower of Wednesday, May 19: Drive to and panics S It will be a two-miles long, pro- London will boom.

Home troops will wear their smartpon against infirmity. He suffers from ocensional attracks of gout, but cession, and will take 40 minutes to

Thursday, May 20: Naval Review blue "walking out uniform. Troops tries to think as little

us possible After this, the King, enthroned, lunch at the Guildhall. as one point. раз

will receive the homage of the peers,

Monday, May 24: Empire Day from overeas willen in Hamp about his age and his allments. A

ton Gardens," Regent's Park,

short afternoon nap has Greeted by a fanfare of trumpets and the Queen, attended by beauti-service at St. Paul's cathedral. at the Abbey entrance, the King and fully robed Ladies of the Bedcham Tuesday, May 25: Dinner by the ton Court, Olympla Stadium, and daily

contributed largely to keep him at Queen will pass on to the Corona- ber and Malds of Honour, will be Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Primrose Hill.

Subway stations will be decorated and capable for work, he believes. street. tion theatre down a processional way crowned.

and drink He continues to smoke covered with a blue chenile Axmins- Then the doors of the Abbey will)

Thursday, May 27: Evening recep-with red, white and blue flowers. ter carpet 173 feet long and 17 feet be

Wearing flung open.

On the evening of Coronation Day, with moderation. their tion by the London County Council. wide, woven in one piece.

crowns and robes, and carrying their All London boroughs will celebrate Alms of the procession and Abbey For the first time in the abbey's sceptres, King George VI. and Queen during the week. There will be ceremony will be shown in all blg history telephones will be used to Elizabeth will step into the state sports, fairs and Breworks in open cinemas in the country. They will control the processions and the ser- coach and drive into the streets for spaces; floodlighting of buildings and be distributed over Britain by air. BRITISH ́LION vice. The scene will be filmed, pro- the acclamation of their people. The of park flower beds; tear, concerts Ace pilots will set off on the same day to race across the Atlantie with free for children; bably in colour.

route back to the Palace is by way and souvenirs

and newsreels.

SEEKING Concealed loudspeakers will am- of Broad Sanctuary, Bridge street, meala, entertainments, parcels

And here is some of the finance of plify the C00-years-old service Victoria Embankment, Northumber money gifts for aged people. throughout the abbey, and it will be land

side of Southern

Schoolchildren will be given-copies the Coronation;

Cost: £454,000, costliest corona- DENTIST relayed to crowds along the route. Trafalgar Square, Cockspur, street, of the official Coronation programme, tion on record. Service and procession will be brood-Pall Mall, St. James's street Plc biographies of the King and Queen, cast. by

the British Breadcasting cadilly, Piccadilly Circus, Regent liver plated inscribed spoons, muga Preparing Westminster Abbey and ONE evening recently hir. Winston

stands:

delighted a group of Corporation, and expert foreign street, Oxford Circus, Oxford street, and beakers. For some there will annexe and putting up

£15,000,

friends with his flashing, wit. commentators will describe the scene Marble Arch, East carriage road in he tree cinema shows and pocket

Boral household experies, In-

Here is an example; (nu ce to the world,

Hyde Park, Hyde Park Corner, or money. All will have a holiday until

cluding entertainment of royal and George's Hospital In Grosvenor May 18.

I am always being told it is about SIX HOUR CEREMONY

London county council hospitals, other visitors £100,000, place, to Constitution Hill and Buck-

resident schools, remand homes and London County Council's celebrat-time the British lion showed his Abbey guests, in priceless jowols Ingham Palace.

teeth; and I reply, "Not before he and magnificent uniforms, will be in The processional route, nearly casual homes will have special fare tlons: £41,700.

Westminster celebrations; £26,000, has gone to the dentist." their places for five or six hours twice, as long as that at the previous and entertainments. Gifts will be.

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