SCOTLAND DELIGHTED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 47, 23 August 1930, Page 9

SCOTLAND DELIGHTED

FIRST ROYAL BIRTH THERE

SINCE KING JAMES I,

British Official Wireless.

(Received 23rd August, 11 a.m.)

KUGBY, 22nd August.

Messages from all parts of tho Empire poured into Glamis Castle to-day congratulating the Duke and Duchess of York on the birth of a Princess. In London a peal was rung on the bells of Westminster Abbey and the West End was decked with Union Jacks. The crowd in Hyde Park sprang from their chairs this afternoon and stood —men bareheaded —while a Royal Saluti of 41 guns was fired by the Royal Horse Artillery in honour of the event. A similar salute was also fired at the Tower of London. The beacon on Hunter Hill overlooking Glamis Castle wili be lighted to-night, and employees of the estate and villages will give themselves up to merry-making such as has not been seen in ancient Glamis for centuries.

The infant Princess is the first member of the Royal Family to be born in Scotland since the birth over three centuries ago of the only son of Mary Queen of Scots, who became James I. of England. It is understood that the new Princess will bo named Margaret.

She is the fourth in line of succession to the Throne next to her sister, Princess Elizabeth, who was four years old last April and who is the third in succession.

The Princess was born between 9 and 10.30 last night, and the news was immediately sent by telephone and telegraph to the King and Queen at Sandringham, and Their Majesties dispatched a message of congratulation to the Duke and Duchess. The Home Secretary, the Bight Hon. J. E. Clynes, and the Ceremonial Secretary to the Home Office, were in accordance with custom in the Castle at the time of birth, and Mr. Clynes sent a telegram informing the Lord Mayor of London of the event. A great number of telegrams of congra-. tulation, including messages from various members of the Eoyal Family, and a telegram from the Lord Mayor on behalf, of the citizens of London, were received at Glamis Castle this morning.

At 10.30 this morning the following bulletin was issued: "Her Koj^al Highness the Duchess of York has had a restful night, and continues to make very satisfactory progress. The infant Princess is doing fine."