KING’S FATAL ILLNESS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26651, 9 February 1952, Page 7

KING’S FATAL ILLNESS

MEDICAL VIEW . . LONDON, February 7. A medical expert said to-day that it *as now obvious that the King was from thickening of the "feries supplying the heart muscles “s well as an impediment to the blood in the right leg which led to his operation in 1949. doctor said that after last Sepr’s operation in the King’s left the heart would have tended to oe Pulled over to the side of the w>er lung. That might put an extra on the heart. t ,A sudden attack of coronary ornbosis, closing one of the two u«nes supplying the heart muscles /j! tog branch of one of the arteries, £® use death within a few secThe attack could come at any »2.y en without a lung operation. ft 22toher medical expert said: "The v n .‘? er of death and the previous “fetory of the King’s health estahr ?* a toe the cause of death to be Wouiau with out an autopsy. Death Painu lns tantaneous and completely man u’ 1 hav e known cases where a ser-. sas5 as been alive and healthy one and dead the next.”

AUSTRALIA TJe Governor-General (Sir William to "day proclaimed Queen Elizabeth as Queen of Australia. The proclamation was signed by Sir William McKell and the 14 Cabinet Ministers who attended yesterday’s meetI in g °f. Bie Executive Council. , Service personnel were lined up belore the memorial plinth still uncom- | pleted to King George V. After the I .‘?X GC ! a 2 la^10n ' a R joined in singing i' God Save the Queen.” ■ u diplomatic representatives were ■ headed by the Soviet Ambassador (Mr Lifanov), who is Dean of the Canberra ; Diplomatic Corps. CEYLON ; The Ceylon Government has ordered Public mourning for the King. Flags .will fly at half-mast until the dav of [the funeral, but to-day when the new [Queen will be proclaimed Queen of Ce L, f ? ags will fl y at the masthead. All public offices, schools, and business houses closed yesterday as a mark of respect to the late King. The Army fired a 56 minute gun salute for the dead King. SOUTH AFRICA The South African Government today proclaimed Queen Elizabeth Sovereign in and over the Union of South Africa.” South Africa is the second Dominion to proclaim her Queen. Canada did so yesterday. South Africa will observe the day of the King s funeral as a day of mournl Businesses and shops will close for the day A Royal Salute of 21 guns will be fired at noon to-morrow in all [ Union and provincial capitals, including south-west Africa. Africans all over the Union to-day sang sad traditional native songs A headman said: “Taukgolo (the Big Chief) our father, is dead. He was a great lion, a great King.” KING’S INTEREST IN SPORT (Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 8 Shooting was by far the late King’s greatest pleasure, and he enjoyed it at various Ijmes of the year at Windsor, Sandringham and Balmoral. At Sandringham he frequently rose at 4 a.m. and shot duck from a punt in the marshes. He was a first-class shot, although he did not achieve the prowess of his father, who was among the best six of his day. Lawn tennis was the King’s favourite game when a youth In 1920 with Sir Louis Grieg he won the Royal Air Force doubles title. A year later he invited W. T. Tilden to play a match with him at Buckingham Palace. He made history at Wimbledon in 1926, when as the Duke of York and partnered by Grieg, he appeared on the No. 2 court against Roper Barrett and A. W. Gore in the first round of the men’s doubles. In golf the late King got his handicap down to 10, and when he played himself in as captain of the Royal and Ancient in 1930 he hit a 300-yard drive. He played little golf after the war. In his younger days the King frequently played squash rackets at the Bath Club. He was also keen at one time on polo and ice hockey. QUEEN MARY’S VISIT LONDON, February 7. Queen Mary drove from Marlborough House to Claronce House to greet her granddaughter when she arrived. The Queen reached Clarence House at 5.5 p.m. The Royal Standard was then hoisted on the building for the first time in its history. About 2000 people were standing outside the gates of Clarence House. They were still and silent as they saw the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh drive in through the gates. A few minutes earlier the crowd had seen Queen Mary arrive.