THE PARTING

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11768, 15 October 1932, Page 5

THE PARTING

HELEN SEKS^MICHAEL TO STEAMER. LONDON. October 6. ‘•141 try to telephone you, Mummy,” were the wistful last words Queen Helen, of Rumania hoard as, after a final pathetic einbiace in the cabin of the Channel steamer, she surrendered her son Michael to the custodian sent by King Carol to take him back. With teui'-iilled eyes, the Queen watched the steamer hear her son swiftly out of Dover, and then returned to London broken dow n by her trying experiences of the separation. King Carol's last act of cruelty was to order that the Queen should be given no information regarding her son's return journey. He gave, also- insruction, that the boy should reach Bucharest in time Hr the King's birthday on October 11. King Carol likes to appear in Michael’s company on such occasions, ill ortier to allay the people’s rising indignation at his publir association with Mdlle. Lupuscu. The report that his father ordered Michael’s return because the boy learned about Mdlle. Lupescu while abroad is untrueOne of the things most painful to Queen Helen is 'that her son was aware of the association though he docs not understand it. He showed an English friend an ornate gold wrist -watch and said, “Look what daddy's lady gave me-