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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Princess

An announcement

By GWYN LEWIS

that

SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1948.

Elizabeth

almost immediately'

The reason for the absence of any advance Announcernent was in edict by King George V.,

Victorian-trained mind expected

HE issuing of what, in ly an announcement to the whose

public attention directed to any effect

"Her Royal thing connected with Highness....will not be under- births was bad taste.

any further engage- taking ments for the next feto months."

usually called "an interes ting announcement" in the Immediato futuro is undor dis- cussion in Buckingham Palace.

It would probably have been issued following Princess Eliza- beth's return from Paris, but for the fact that it might have bedn necessary in consequence to cancel her visits to Coventry, to Oxford to receive the degree of D.C.L., and to Cardiff for the Bath and West Show..

The Cardiff visit is likely to be the Princess's last major public duty for some time, and the announcement from the Palace will now not be delayed

long.

Some smaller engagements may Inter be fulfilled.

The first official news that a royal birth is expected is usual

This is usually made from three to four months before the expected date of the birth.

But royal births have not always been preceded by this formal withdrawal from pubile activities. It did not happen in the case of Princess Elizabeth herself.

The Queen, then Duchess of York, had spent Christmas 1925 at Sandringham with the Royal Family. Early in 1926 she went to her parents' home. St Paul's, Waldenbury, Hertfordshire.

At the end of March she moved to 17, Bruton Street, and on April 21' Princess Elizabeth was born there.

From the Notebooks of the only European observer out of the Holy City since began,

THE FIRST DIARY OUT

The Duke and Duchess pleaded to be allowed to make some pre- liminary announcement. but the King was adamant.

Four years later the King nccept- ed modern views and permitted the issue of an announcement from 145. Piccadilly, then her home, that the Duchess of York would be under- taking no further engagements after April 15, 1930.

Princess Margaret was born at August 21 Glamb, Scotland, un 1030.

QUEEN VICTORIA Queen Victoria gave large dinner parties right up to the day before born. A King Edward VII. was dinner party arranged for. that even. ing was cancelled.

Queen Mary, Quicen - Alexandra, and the Princess Royal were born on a Sunday.

'It' wis, the winter of 1884, and Queen Alexandra was staying at Frogmore House in Windsor Park. Ice skating, was in progress, and In bygone times royally like their Queen Alexandra insisted on join- ubjects, believed in heavy-weight babies. The ideal weight at birth ing the fun. Suddenly she fell

Arrangements had been made for. was considered to be not less than the expected birth to take place at Dlb.. Twelve-pound

bables were Marlborough House. The baby was common. born before fresh plans could boBulletins announcing the arrival made.

of royal babies made no reference A local doctor was called in and to the weight at birth until the I in and that Lady Macclesfield, birth of Princess Margaret, who

ooted AB lady-in-waiting.

nurse, weighed Glb. 11oza. wrapping the infant in her own. petticoat.

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An hour later a special train steamed into Windsor with four doctors, two nurses, and trunks full of baby clothes.

Queen Alexandra's second son, later George V., was born in ortho- dox manner at Marlborough House on June 3, 1803.

During the afternoon Queen Alexandra had attended a concert, and a dinner, to which 40 guests had been invited, had been arranged for the evening.

Queen Alexandra was unable before

few hours after be present, and a the dinner guests had gone her baby was born.

Prince Albert Victor's arrival in- to the world two months expected found his mother, Queen Alexandra, the Pricess of Wales, totally unprepared.

war..

WALTER LUCAS cabled there extracts from the diary of a Stockholma Tidningen reporter, just out of Jerusalem, where (due to cabling problema) an arrangement was made among reporters to "pool" their news atorics.

OF JERUSALEM

Cabled from Amman pletely hidden from view down our THERE are 20 of us shut street except for the muzzle of the gun, which ranged northwards up British St the street. up in George's Cathedral and School in Jerusalem.

T

tho

In the early morning 1 had scen one of those strange-looking Jewish the drive down armoured buses

s girl in a bright aluminium helmet got oul anil

In

course

of

The

time two

Arab

Sheikh Jarrah rounded the corner armoured cars coming down from into view. In a minute the first one was knocked out.

An

We are an assorted bunch, side street behind the armoured car. including the Bishop of Jeru- salem, Dr W. H. Stewart, printed steel Archdeacon MacInnes and his drugged rations and munitions to wife, Mr and Mrs Foster and the crew of the armoured car. their little daughter-who are bus then lumbered off. as cool as cucumbers and say that conditions here are nothing compared with the London blitz -two British newspaper corres- number of pondents, and women of various nationalities. We have no electricity, no light, and we are in the middle of the battle of Jerusalem. To get from the school building to the cathedral to make a dash close we have across builel-swept Nablus-street. We make this death run continually, as, from the cathedral tower, it is

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Arab officer

lifted the lid, held up his hands, and jumped out, shouting at the Jews to hold their fire as his crew inside were badly wounded and the car was burning.

A burst of machine-gun are cut him in two, as if it had been a knife cutting butler. Later the Jews threw petrol on the body, burning it.

The battle between the second

do. We managed to drag them away from that activity,

The fighting seemed to be flereer!

tonight than and more continuous

Was on previous nights. There bright moonlight, and from school windows I could see shadowy Agures fitting about.

to

The decision, where a royal baby shall be born is a matter for family consultation.

It is known that the Queen her self decided that Princess Margaret Rose was to be born in her native Scotland.

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ON SATURDAYS

Princess Elizabeth's birth weight was given as "a little below aver- age."

Apart from the medical staff in attendance, the first person outaldo the Royal Family to receive news of the event is the Home Secretary, who, by ancient custorn, is present at all royal births.

IN 1688

The reason for the Home Secre- tary's presence, in the past was to ensure that the succesalon to the throne was not manipulated by the introduction of a "chongeling" child,

The custom had its origin in the reign of James I., whose enemies suspected that he intended to impose the Roman Catholic Lalth On England.

James whe

elderly and in Irail health. No baby had been bom for six years and none of his children by his second wife had sur- vived Infancy.

The fears of his enemies were aroused when a royal birth was proclaimed in 1888.

But the cradles of some of our Doubts were cast on the birth. royal babies have been in unexported The story spread that the child had places. Prince William, son of the been smuggled into the Queen's bed- Duchess of Gloucester, was born in room in a warming pan. Even the nursing home at Barnet. He King'a second daughter, later Queen

Anne, wrote arrived a fortnight before expected.

to her sister of her York suspicions. King was born in The Cottage, Sandringham, whose cramp- ed accommodation is described by the

Windsor

his in Duke of memoirs. King Edward VII. was born at Buckingham Palace.

1! you check up royal birthdays you will be surprised at the number that have been on a Saturday. The King, the late Duke of Kent, the Duke of Gloucester, the Duke of Windsor were all born on Satur- day,

Though the story is regarded as false by historians, a rule was put into force immediately afterwards that the Home Secretary must be present in person at the accouche- ment of any royal mother whose baby is in the direct line of succes sien.

All royal babies have to be regis- tered with the local registrar, like nny other children,

six within weeks of birth.

A remarkable man

called Anaqaq

TP in the north of Greenland, The captain Inquired how much they

UP

During the day the houses across from us in St. George's-road were deserted. During the night saw

in the nearest inhabited cost. Jows slinking back, jumping across

moving down the street land to the North Pole, lives roofs and so close to the walls that they look-Anuqaq, the most remarkable

man in the world.

ed as if they had melted into them like hot butter.

From wial I could see of this nocturnal hiting. the Jews ore more careful with their much

than the

Arabs. They never seemed to let off anything munitions unless they had a good target,

a

He is a member of the famous Eskimo Whaling Council, highly respected citizen, but he has thick, black, curly hair, and his voice makes the icebergs echo.

son

"Ten shillings,' sold Anaqaq.

No. confound your impudence, you can have three shillings."

***Splendid,

was the reply.

"It was certainly not his intention to clicut the captain, but, like the rest of them, he had no real grasp of the value of money."

In De Gilberg's interesting analy- sis of the health of these primitive people in the Polar regions, there may be some strong pointers to our doctors here.

– pneumonia,

possible to get a magnificent view Arab armoured cor and the Jewish under barbed wire and down side home town of Savigsik, ls also un disease in primitive peoples.

of the whole battle.

reett for some time, until it, 100, Today I have acclimatised myself was knocked out.

to the constant rattle

That hight

I heard the Arabs to the two curs

and

of machine creeping up guns and the bursting of shells and dismantling them before the Jews mortar bombs. I ran across to the could get at them.

do my 138 pump. Four of

enthedral this afternoon to

stint

on the

pumped for more than an hour. We got blisters on our hands and sufli- clent water for the bishop to have a meagre bath,

2nd DAY: The bishop's house is bombed

4th DAY: Yomon weap for their sons BROKE out today and by a secret the Jewish way got over to quarter up the New City. Here I looked up an old acquaintance, Dr

valoire of Music.

But,

6th DAY: Wo reach the

For Anaqaq is hall-Eskimo and half-Negro, the

of a Negro Mount of Olives

steward who accompanied Peary's mote settlement, more than 33 per- Dr Gilberg found that, in his re-

DECIDED

break for expedition to the North Pole, 40 years cent of people died from tuberculosis to make a I

Amman. Guided by an old Ogo. gardener, we climbed over walls, Anaqaq, a lending character in his and 15 percent from

which is П particularly violent streets, made a dash across et into Doctor" (Alien und Unwin, 15s), by was not a single case of cancer, and outstanding character In "Eskimo in the whole of his district, thëre road at Herod's Gate, und got

Ange Gülberg, a Danish doctor, who there has never been a recorded the Arab section of the Old City.

ten years ago, took his wife to example of appendicitis. plenty in the shops, and plenty of Greenland to look after the peoples parts of that water. Life seemed to be carrying in the northernmost

lost region. on almost as normal,

Describing his first meeting with Anaqaq, the doctor writes:

"He was distinguished from his fellows by more than his colour and his curly hair; he had also the long arms and legs of the Negro.

Here there was complete calm,

I made my way to St. Stephen's Gate and hired a laxi to take me to then went back the Anuman. I

with the gardener, to same way, collect my bags at the school. When we got back again to St. Stephen's Gate the taxi was waiting.

The courage and adaptability of the Eskimo are well illustrated in old man called the story of one Qavigarsuak, whom Dr Gilberg was entertaining by showing photographs of New York. He said suddenly:

"Yes, I've been there. It's an awful place. ⚫ Copenhagen is much

Wolfgang Ehrlich, of the Conser-climbed in and lay flat on the being an odd figure. He was liked better; at least one can walk about

floor

"Anaqaq in no way suffered from even loved, by each one, and gained The desperate plight of the Jews door as we made a 200-yard dash respect as an outstanding whaler. down the Jericho road; which is

"He was distinctly musical, and ed clean through the yard-thick astonished me. He took me to lunch under fire from the Jews in the Old

natural leader of the choir in the little church. at the Viennese Restaurant in Zion-

"He had brought a couple of fine qute. Our

and Invited the captain to buy one.

DARLY this morning a shell pass- wall of the cathedral and burst in- side as the bishop was holding an carly morning service. No one was

nurt, only n pillar chipped and the

roof damaged.

meal, costing one

Hors d'ocurve --

City..

pound, comprised: a thin slice of ing hit us, and we reached the safe-paper-knives made of walrus tusk,

Main course

of

bully beef and cold potatoes;

bigger slice bully beef and bolled cooked pound, comprised:

Third course-tinned pears.

It has been a day of bursting shells. I became

# little shnken. One fell on the bishop's garage and

In the Jewish quarter I saw long destroyed his car. Another hurtled through the roof of the bishop's lines of women waiting with buckets

making a shambles of a room

for the daily visit of the water cart. by

Miss Ibrahim. She spoke to some of them, and they had been persuaded a few minutes told me the meat ration was so small before coinc

down for tea. If sho it was not really worth while collect- had not, there would not have been int it, but, as there were no veget- much left of Miss Ibrahim.

ables, fruit. eggs, or milk, everyone took the daily ration.

Then, just as six of us were sitt ing down to tea, a mortar bomb

While I was in Ehrlich's office I

exploded 15 feet away in the heard next door women's plercing -courtyard, shattering the windows walls. I asked Ehrlich what it was. and rocking the table. It shook us. He told me it was the place where a bit and we crouched down by the parents were told of casualties to furthest wall waiting for the next their sons.

As we were talking a dishevelled and burst into woman

the room

Ehrlich's around

It has been n bad day. Arch- dieacon MacInnes received a shot in flung her orms

the leg which splintered the bone knees, imploring him to save her as he and his wife were trying to youngest son, who had been colled get down the road to the American up for military service. Her eldest colony to offer help.

We dragged him back to the cover' of the cathedral walls and tried to get an ambulánce to take him to. hospital. None would come. Finally, by contacting the British Consulate on our walkie-talkie, 42 armoured car shot its way to us, took the archdeacon oft to Austrian Hospital in the Old City,

3rd DAY: Two armoured

Arnb

and' tho

had just been killed.

From the numbers in the next room I imaging the Jewish casualties must have been heavy.

5th DAY: Arah survonts try to explode homba TODAY the bighop decreed double summer-time in the cathedral close to conserve diminishing kerosene supplies. We in the school kept to our ordinary time. Thus, HAD n grandstand view from five there was confusion. The bishop's yards' range of the strangest sight congregation would be just going to I have seen.

A Jewish armoured bed when we started our dinner, car was parked at the road intersec-aral his carly service in the cathedral tion. 'In St. Georgo's road, right started somewhere around down.

windows of Sl. Some morlar bombs fell in the courtyard today, and I found Arab

cors are knocked out

ncross from the George's School.

I had watched them sandbug the servants trying to make them ex- Wheels and get into position, com- plode, thinking it was the thing to

Bullets plaged around but noth-

ty of the Mount of Olives.

there without being run over,

Qavigarsuak turned out to be the Last survivor of Peary's expedition "What was it to, the North Pole. like?" asked the doctor.

"Nuaninguajo-it was fun," he answered with a smile.

E. B.

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