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VOL. II NO. 351

The

For the Proprietor of HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, For and on behalf of a R SOUTII CIUNA MORNING POST, LTD.

Printer, and Publisher

hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1947.

PHILIP CREATED DUKE

OF EDINBURGH

Authorised To Use HRH Prefix

EVERYTHING READY FOR TODAY'S ROYAL WEDDING

London, Nov. 19.-It was announced today that King George has made Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Merioneth and Baron of Greenwich, and awarded him the Order of the Garter.

Lieutenant Mountbatten is authorised to use the prefix "His Royal Highness."

The official announcement from Buckingham Palace tonight said: "The King today conferred the honour of Knighthood on Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten and invested him with the insignia of a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.

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"His Majesty has been pleased to authorise the use of the prefix His Royal Highness by Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, and to approve that the dignity of a Dukedom of the United Kingdom be conferred upon him by the name, style and title of Baron of Greenwich in the County of London, Earl of Merioneth and the Duke of Edinburgh."

By his elevation to the Dukedom of Edinburgh, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, becomes the sixth holder of the title which was created 221 years ago. The new titles will give Lieutenant Mountbatten the right to sit in the House of Lords.

The King authorised the use of the prefix "His Royal Highness" by the new Duke, under his personal Royal prerogative. Lieutenant Mountbatten was born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark. But he relinquished this rank when he laid down the foreign titles on being naturalised last February. It is the usual custom for three titles to be borne by a Duke, and the normal practice is for the second title to be an Earldom, which is used as a courtesy title by the Duke's first born son.

BIG LONDON ROBBERY

Queen's

Sister-In-Law

Victimised

All the last minute touches had, and the Ex-Queens of Spain and been put to London's carnival pre-Yugoslavia. The Prince Regent of parations tonight as Princess Elizabeth Belgium, Princess Julluna; Regent of and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten the Netherlands with her husband went through the grey dusk to the Prince Bernhard were also there. High Altar of Westminster Abbey to rehearse their part in tomorrow's wedding ceremony

Palace was floodlit Buckingham The Union Jack, the Stars and Stripes, the Hammer and Sickle, the

Mounted police had to control the exclted crowds, trying to get closeup views

crowned heads.

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RAMADIER RESIGNS PREMIERSHIP

Leon Blum Expected To Form New Cabinet

Paris, Nov. 19-French Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier resigned his office,tonight as the country faced spreading national strikes already involving 600,000 workers.

This followed a three-hour emergency meeting and visit M. Ramadier paid late tonight to President Auriol at Elysee Palace. His resignation was a col- lective one of the whole Cabinet.

An official statement from the President's office Bald that M. Ramadier had resigned in order that: "action may be taken in which all the Republic and parties can engage their responsibility."

ing

a new

The President Immediately started consultations with a view to nominat- ew Premier. He first saw the speaker of the National Assembly, M. Herriot, and was to

meet after that the speaker of the Upper Chamber and individually the chairmen of Parliamentary grouns of leading parties,

The

England Defeats Sweden

Still Supreme At Soccer

London, Nov. 19-England

Govt. To Appoint A Select Committee

consultations were expected to go until midnight and to continuo London, Nov. 19.--The Prime tomorrow morning. Minister. Mr Clement Attico, The resignation of the Coalition

Cabinet was attended a Parliamentary La-

precipitated, it was stated in bour Party meeting in the circles, by the dissatisfaction among well-informed political House of Commons today, to Radical deputies friendly, to General maintained her unbeaten record hear the former Chancellor of Charles De Gaulle. the Exchequer, Mr Hugh

They oblected to behind the scenes against Continental teams Dalton, give his own account of manoeuvres of the past week by the none has ever won in England→→→

so-called Visitors from all over the world the budget leakage which led to Socialists

"Third Force parties by beating Sweden by four goals have poured into the city in n last his resignation.

and Popular Republicans to two in the first international with s

some support the Right-soccer between these two coun- minute rush to find hotels booked

who tried to prepare an alterna- tries to be played in England at up weeks in advance-

ive Government before placing the

Highbury this afternoon..

The Princess has had a last minute hair-do and many swank Mayfair hairdressers had a hey-dey today- Her visits cost less than £5 and a £1 tip. Her style is chiefly off the

y curls in front. face. witif a sleek back and soft,

Scotland Yard have been issuing precautionary orders all day. They have studied photographs Tricolour and the flags of all nations

The honeymoon town of Romsey, foreign agliators and undesirables. 80 miles away, in Hampshire, has flew along the wedding route.

this afternoon They have checked on offices and hoisted its Bags to welcome The young couple

the London, Nov.

see if young couple. 19. Burglars showed their wedding presents to the shops along the route to

They are spending bruke Into the home of Mrs J. visiting foreign Royally at their first there have been any additions

to the first part of their honeymoon at ལས་ Bowes-Lyon, sister-in-law

This time, in con the lists of sightseer guests. They Broadlands, the Georgian mansion of postwar gathering. Queen Elizabeth, early this mom- trust to the 2,500 guests on Alunday are ready with thousands of extra home of Earl and Countess Mount-

the Ing and took a tara and necklace and Tuesday, only guests were police to

to oversee the procession batten.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, worth an estimated £3,000 which foreign Kings and Queens, Princes and tomorrow. she wore last night to a Bucking- Princesses, members of the tugal Expectant crowds have been surg Sir Stafford Cripps, thanked the ham Palace parky.

Mrs Bowes-Lyon, mother of one of Princess Elizabeth's bridesmaids, did not discover the loss until late today.

Scotland Yard said they found no signs of how the burglars entered her house in Charleston Street in Mayfair.

EDITORIAL

The meeting lasted three hours. It was announced that the next Cabinet without much discussion. moves were left in the hands of the

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Farom

issue before Parliament,

Assembly refused to consult on the up in half an hour and led 3-1 a

The Radical group, in the National Although England became thres

it was later learned that the future administration with the halftime, the Swedes fought back Government intends to introduce

Socialists protesting, against what it courageously and during the second Bu "unconstitutional pro- half, when led 3-2, had an inspired spell when they might easily have equalised. BLUM READY.

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of a

Forty-five thousand fans watched M. Leon Blum, the aged French a keen game which, if not touching Socialist lender, has agreed to form the dizziest heights of football, was new French Cabinet if he is called always entertaining and conducted in on to do so by M. Vincent Auriol, the sporting spirit, even though the President of the Republic, it was

cach

zide scored once from the announced here today by M Guy Penally spot. Molict, the Secretary General of the As has happened so often in Inter-

Party

national matches between England. had spired early spell which won the

hatch for England.

A

-Family, and-the-suites-in-attendance-f-ing-all-day-and-evening-outside-the King in Parliament today for his commitee.of inquiry drawn from French Social that no names or and other countries, it was an in-

The King and Queen, and the Palace, along the route, and at the "generous and charasteristic offer to Dowager Queen Mary were there. So Abbey, to catch a glimpse of the provide for the young couple for a were the Kings of Norway and Royal Family. Cheering thousands period from the savings he made Denmark, King Peter of Yugoslavin, mobbed Lieutenant Philip's car as during

his war from the Queen of Denmark and Greece, he drove to the Palace at noon.

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WESTMINSTER ABBEY SCENES

Haven.

on

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motion in

in Parliament for debate this described weck.

cedure evening, probably tomorrow calling for the

appointment select committee to inquire into the circumstances of the leak, which Mr Dalton made to the accredited Parliamentary correspondent of the London Evening Star a few minutes before he addressed the House # week ago today.

The select_committee, which wa

members of all parties, was originally demanded by the Conservative opposition.

The Government has now taken opposition by a step ahead of the deciding to sponsor the motion itself. It will propose that the select com- mittee be given a wide. berth to investigate all the circumstances which it decided may be relevant.

After Mr Dalton had addressed entary Labour Party,

unanimously

passed the resolution, placing on record "its full confidence in Mr Hugh Dalton and assuring him of the he is held by his party colleagues. Reuter.

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M. Mollet sald kely new Cabinet Ministers yet been agreed on. said, to head a new Government to

M. Blum was ready, M. safeguard

Republican institutions.

M.

The English att

Mollet brilliant

Stapley

attack started In fashion and although Matthow

England's famous

Mollet did not include the rightwinger WAS

of

a last-minate injury,

he was

Une play.

possibility an all-Sociailst Gov- absentoo through ernment but he also envisaged the not much missed so possiblity of a Government based on

the roorganised forwaeautifully dia n coalition of, Socialists and popus Mortensen got three goals and ar Republicans, with tho participa- Lawton one, but perhaps Mannion tion of radicals and

was the pick of the lively forward independent line, with Mortensen next best Conservatives.

M. Mollet said:

"The

present

position demands certain measures which

un

The opening goal came in the 13th minute through Mortensen, and few minutes lator Lawton scored the are found to be hard and unpopular.

second English goal from the penulty Everybody in tha partics concerned are agreed

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Then

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Nordahl scored Asked what the programme

Sweden's first goal, following a free of kick. Mortensen got the third goal Birth Certificate

the new Government would be,

before the half-hour was up as the M. Mollet said it first would in- For. Sixpence

volve the raising of

result of a lovely combined move- minimum salaries for everybody, the

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After 24 minutes of the second London, Nov. 19-Frons next-of-a-new-price level-and the rigid half; Gren nalled from the penalty Monday, new and short form of freezing of prices and wages t spat after

certificate costing sixpence these new levels for a certain period. brought down in the penalty area. birin

Swede had been will be available showing only the

Then came a dingdong struggle and names, sex, date and place of birth

SECRET BALLOT RULE It was not until almost the Just and omitting particulars of parent- M. Mollet added that everybody minttle of the match that Mortensen

the Socialists to the Right netted It was also reported from Glam-favoured the introduction of the rule gathering darkness.

again for England in the. organshire that five miners fainted that a secret ballot should be taken Judging by their display this during the showing of the film,."The in all trade unions before any strike afternoon, Sweden's amateurs should Birth of a Baby," at Maesteg,

was authorised..

go far in next year's Olympic soccer One was a grandfather-Reuter,

tournament-Router.

Scotland Yard detectives, who bave been reinforced by police from provincial towns to guard visiting Two thousand three hundred people | Over the Archbishop's head, held, salling to the Far East. Like the Royalty and gems during the Royal will watch the glittering ceremony by his Chaplain, will be the great Princess she is 21-years-old and is

swarmed over

same height, wedding festivities,

five feet the house but could find no clue to

in the Abbey today. Among them Jewelled cross of Canterbury,

Princess Elizabeth will stand on inches. will be five Kings, eight Queens, the top of four steps leading from Meanwhile, the Air Ministry.fore- the identity of the burglars.

On cast for Princess Elizabeth's wedding high regard in which ten Princesses. the lantern to the sacrariumm. Mrs Bowes-Lyon said she put the tight Princes and

of the Royal her lefthand will be the King, on day is likely to be "dull with local Jewellery in a case in her dressing Fifty-two members

right Lieutenant Mountbatten, ported that rain may "become more The Air Ministry, further re- of her room, next to her bedroom, when Family will be seated in view she and her daughter Dlana return-the magnificent High Altar as the Next to her bridegroom will be the

general" towards noon ed from the Palice Inte inst night. Archbishop

best man, tho Marquis of Milford of Canterbury in a

when the "As far as we know, nothing else mitre of white and gold carries out

Royal

wedding procession will be on its way to Westminster Abbey. was taken," she sald.-United Press. the wedding ceremony.

When the King gives Princess added: "There will be local fog and Elizabeth away he will stand on the it will be very cold. left of "Her Royal Highness The period but possibly less old towards cold most of the Bride," the third of four steps. noon when the temperature will be The pages and bridesmaids will re-about 40 degrees Fahrenheit." main at the foot of the steps.

It was announced last night that From their scats in the sacrarium, part of the Army's wedding present between the top of the four steps-cheques voluntarily subscribed to and the altar, will be 52 members by all ranks was being used by of the Royal Family, the Queen's the Princess to buy several articles family, the bridegroom's family and including a picture of London other visiting Royalty,

Bridge and Saint Paul's by Willam The Princess wedding dress Marlow. The balance will go to arrived manner in which

Palace yesterday, any charity. the Chinese in Shanghai donated

The dress, in a four-foot long box, In the Southern Command alone, to the pubile fund for a wedding

taken in a small green

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Was contributed. glit to the Princess was an in- which drove through the "Trade subscription from oMeers pressive

limited to half-crown and the The six-tier 600 pound wedding The Princess has a cheque for

other ranks, sixpence, was taken in a dark blue pantechnicon and was escorted by £4,000 to dispose of offer buying

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A Princess Weds

have been arranged. It would be ungracious on our part to imagine in Hongkong that only Brilons when

feel elated about today's wedding, The generous

royal romance will reach Its culminating point in West- minster Abbey today Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountballen are joined together In holy matrimony.. There will be general refolcină not only because the bride may onc day become queen of, England, but because

Es ap- preciated that this wedding is no State arranged union with poll- teal undertones, but a genuine affair of the heart, with two young people deeply attached each other. The world will Join in wishing Princess Elizabeth and her bridegroom undisturbed hap- piness in their future life. To millions in England, the occasion will present

an opportunity to enjoy a brief encounter with gafety and colour in lives made drab and dreary by austerity re- strictions. The celebrations will

be spontaneous. for the Itayal Princess has already won the affection of the people, who also regard Lieutenant Mountbatten as eminently atted to be a future Prince Consort. Hongkong will

Join

in spirit the Joyful obser- vance of the event, with slight feelings of regret that, apart from the military parade at Sookubpoo and the Navy's searchlight display tonight, no publio celebrations

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The A breakdown van followed for fear contributions.

Royal Navy contributed £1,922, part of which

Gate." manifestation of the esteem in which both she and the Royal Family are held by our neighbours, and this ensures that the rood wishes which will echo around the Colony

today will come from more than one section of the community. Felicitationis on this happy occasion are ad- companied by a recognition that fon her both Princess Elizabeth, anil bridegroom face a future of heavy responsibilities. The Princess ou her 21st birthday publicly, de- dicated her life to the service of devollon her country, and this will be shared by her husband who bas already displayed his love of country by a notable war

record with the Bridal: Nay: Nevertheless

outside of official dutfe which must Inevitably Occupy

of their time, the much

· Pincess ・and" her husband can look forward to a happy com- panionship based fixsily on true love and secondly on mutual in- forests, and it will be the earnest hope of millions throughout the universe that nothing will befall

to mar, their happiness.

was

age or adoption.

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BRITAIN ESTABLISHES NEW CIVIL

DEFENCE ORGANISATION

made...

of an emergency. Inside the pan-oes to the Trafalgar Orphans Fund technicon, six men kept guard over and part in a sideboard and cheque civil defence organisation for where necessary.

London, Nov. 19.—A now reinforcements of local services in the light of the study now being a six-fect crat

crate in which the

cake packed. Massen of flowers for the Princess. were Lak

taken into the Palace for

Three sailors from HMS Royal Britain was announced in the de corations for the wedding breakfast. At the ring colt House of Commons today by A few days ago a trunk arrived at biltshire, Whore Leuten the Prime Minister. Mr Clement

ant Mountbatten was 'an instructor, at Buckingham Palace after crossing are bringing their own presenta Attlee.

the Atlantie by air containing 25 gold cigarette case for which they Karments as a wedding present to

had saved £20.—Router. the Princes from the New York Institute of Dress Designers. Feel- ing that in the present time of dmculties and restrictions she could SIX-YEAR-OLD not keep all the dresses herself, the Princess decided to give 20 to Bri-

BOY FOUND tish girls who like herself are being married this month. The first gü to

After a worried night, Mrs Hop- apply to the Women's Voluntary Service, who man of Leighton House, Mody Road are distributing the garments, was reported to the police this morning Lily Chor, a factory girl of Lytton that her missing six-year-old son, London, who is being married on Colin, had returned home at 7vices which in any case had other Friday to Privato Alfred Jasper of d'clock this morning,

the Gordon Highlander, who is on He had spent the

In addition to the wartime pr rangements for dealing with bomb attacia, moble milliary columus will be trained to reinforce` civil defence services where necessary.

Mr Attice made it clear in a re- ply to questions that such possibili- ties as dealing with atomic bombs, had "naturally been taken into ne Civilian, statle and mobile ser vices would be attached to and de veloped from such services as lie police, fire, medical and health ser duties to perform...

night at the

Tho mobile military columna would provide si resurve for

the

a 14 days embarkation leave before RAF mess across the street.

Recruiting for civilian servlees would be on a part time voluntary of clubs and associations of men and It was hoped to have the assistance basis, Mr Attico declared.

women formerly connected with, or Mr* Attlee also stated that a Interested in civil defence, and of provision would be made Inter for other voluntary agencies, and the dispersal and evacuation, for 'bomb general publie in building civilian shelters and other essential elements olements In the proposed new in an overall plan for civil defence organisation-Reuter,

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