KING TRANSPORTED.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 35, 11 February 1929, Page 7

KING TRANSPORTED.

Journey By Car Successfully Accomplished. PATIENT CHEERED EN ROUTE. (Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) LONDON", February 10. His ?\la.jcsty the King was safely removed to Bognor, Sussex, yesterday from P.uckinghani Palace in a motor ambulance. There were many thousands of people outside the Palace. They were utterly silent as the King left upon his journey. They could sec through the raised bllndof the ambulance the l!oyal patient lying on the bed. As the King was driven through the gates of the Palace, between the rank-, of his bareheaded people he raised one hand in salute. There was a pause lor a few minutes in whieli the silence was unbroken. Then the pent-up feeling of the crowd was given full vent. As the Queen drove out the people surged forward and gave her a mighty cheer, waving their hats, their hands, and their handkerchiefs. Some of them sang the National Anthem. The ambulance was driven slowly from the front of the Palace to Victoria Street. The people who lined the route had a glimpse of the King s pale, wan figure propped up in the narrow bed inside the ambulance. They could see the ravages his long struggle had wrought. Sir Stanley Hewett and Lord Dawson of Penn had arrived at the Palace ai 1> a.m. and examined His Majesty. -lust before 10.30 a.m. four St. John Ambulance men took to the It ova 1 bedioom a special bed into which, under the supervision of the Queen, the Dukes of York and Gloucester and Prince George, the King was carefully lifted. Slowly and with extreme care His Majesty was carried clown a staircase to the garden entrance of the Palace where the ambulance was waiting. A platform had been erected from the level of the floor of the ambulance to the top step, and the bed was quickly slipped into position. Nurse Purdie then stepped into the ambulance and the journey was begun. His Majesty travelled to Craigwell House past * sympathetically cheering people for almost the entire distance ot liO miles. Although the route had been kept secret the news of the direction belli" taken by the procession soon spread and every town and village on the wav was crowded. Labourers in fields ran to the hedges to witness the passage of the ambulance and hundreds of thousands of people must have seen the Royal patient.-. progress. Everywhere there were similar scenes. Realising the greatness of the King » ordeal from his pallor the people wersurprised to see His Majesty propped ut and invariably burst into continuous, but subdued, cheers and waved handkerchiefs and flags. The King repeatedly waved his hand in response. The Queen also was heartilv cheered. Bognor was reached in a burst of sunshine. The iournev from Buckingham Palace was accomplished in three hours The ambulance men carried His Ma jest, into the house and placed him in hi, bed. They successfully negotiated tm difficult staircase to the bedroom whieu overlooks the Channel and which was o-littering in the sunlight. * Immediately the Royal Standard was broken from the mast oyer the house Lord Dawson and Sir Stanley Hewetf then examined His Majesty, who is understood to have endured the stran of the journey well. The going of His Majesty to the sea -ide is a typically English act ant appeals to "the nation as the niosi natural thing in the world. It is whsl most people have themselves done aftci illness some time in their lives. After a light luncheon at Craigwcl House His Majesty enjoyed a sound natural sleep for nearly four hours.