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SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 27,

1937.

THE KING AND QUEEN

VISIT HULL

SKIES WERE GREY BUT. THE CROWDS GAY

By HILDE MARCHANT Hull, Oct. 20. WHEN the King and

THANKS- AND

FAREWELL

the bairns?" shouted WHEN his doctor told him he

"How's the woman next to me.

On the far shie of the elly square is a dock. Masts drenched with flaga peered over the housetops, and

when the King and Queet drove

That was the city's most char- acteristic welcome, for the docks. Badly qulelened recently, are the main industry. There were the many dock Inbourers in the crowd, For that meant they were not on duty.

Queen came to Hull to day they were greeted by a

round the square the unloading Lord Mayor holding à bow-stopped and the ships hooted. ler hat, his wife in a homely red Harris tweed, a cor- poration in plain tweed overcoats and the city blink- ing under a dirty grey fog.

My home town, with rates at 19s. 8d. in the pound, has not got much to spend on bunting and frills.

Inside the City Hall were 2,000 schoolchildren, the best from every

class, well washed and well behaved. Shuffling from one. foot to the other was Marjorie Corp, a thirteen- year-old schoolgirl, chosen to pre- sent the

bouquet. She had dark

manner. She greeted the without any

fear and answered questions about her age and school

and big while teeth and an easy

They were paper flags, some home-made with crayon, card-quite clearly, board and a piece of firewood, clutched in fingers bent with cold that greeted the King and Queen. That is Yorkshire- without any false pretences.

We had packed down on the kerb edge in the early morning -what with the fog and dirt, I was not quite sure whether it had dawned. There Was colour. The guard WNB khaki. with guns that were meant to work.

no

all

Queen

had no chance of recovering from his liness," Mr. Stephen Hardy, of Foulden, Berwick, a haulage contractor, summoned each of his employees to his bedside.

He thanked them for their ser- vices, shook them by the hand, and bado them good-bye. Many of the men were in tears as they said farewell.

Mr. Hardly was buried ́a days later,

fow

Six-foot Stowaway Nailed In 2ft. 6in. Box

A six-foot Greek, almost naked and trussed like a chicken, was found There were not many fur coals., in a box 2ft. Gin, by 3ft. Gin, enntain- No robes, and not one top hat. But ing sand eighteen hours after it had the people were very glad the King been slung aboard the Dutch steamer and Queen had wanted to see their Calypso (2,258 ions), which have to city and could stay for lunch. Just off Tower Bridre at two o'clock

The gesture they liked most was last month. when the royal couple went into Torkshire home. They drove out to new housing estate at Col- tingham and saw the lord mayor's own scheme for housing old people In cottages at 5s. d.

weck. The King and Queen went into Mrs. Hunter's cottage and found the great pot of ten which sizzles on the hob of every Yorkshire home.

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"KINDLY AND NICE"

The Queen was shown into every There were men selling favours, corner, inside the stove and pantry. gay dabs of red, white and blue

when every Onс

Afterwards,

The man, in a state of comm from cold, hunger and cramp, was revived and fed. He said he was George

Menzies.

With a stevedore's help he stowed himself in the box at Calamanta, Greece,had planned getting out when the ship put to sea, but before size left pert the box lid was fostened down.

Menizes hammered and clawed at the sides of the box--in valo. Hla erles were mouffled and un- heard.

"It was just luck that the bo'sun opened the box," aid Captain Hipke

tissue paper, but there was nothing gathered round Mrs. Hunter and over a penny, unless you wanted asked what she was like, this grey- Beaker. If he but not done so the the King and Queen on five plc-haired old lady, in her best Lures soldered into a walnut. That

was Gd., and in this corner of the country you measure 6. in terms

of your dinner,

Quite early the Girl Guldes went on duty. Their only consistency was the blue hat, for not many can afford tunics.

"HOW'S THE BAIRNS)"

man would undoubtedly have sled."

will

Menzies, who worked his passage frock, said in an offhand way: "Why any ordinary lady. Kindly and nice and interested in the kitchen, engine-room after his recovery.

deall be

with today by She enld she was glad we old people immigration authorities and probably could have a fireside of our own. repatriated. That is just what I suy. It is nice to be independent of the family."

When the King and Queen went Visitor Becomes Prisoner away the committee on the platform waved good-bye, and the crowds,"

• Firebaugh, Cal. atif with cold, moved off the pave~| When inmates of the city inil The East Yorkshires came in frontment edge.

begon getting hilarious, Police Chief of us and we knew it was about What every one who had met the Bruno Malanen found Roy Coultress cleven.

The cheer echoed from the King and Queen was saying was: had visited two friends with a bottle station and then we got a glimpse of "Just like any ordinary couple"-ot of liquor. Coultress visited blue and saw the King quite plain-course they are.

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