JUBILEE VISITS

Grey River Argus, 15 May 1935, Page 5

JUBILEE VISITS

BY ROYALTIES Medical School Opened (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 13. The visit of 'tin* King and Queen to Hammersmith to open tjhe British Post-Graduate Medicpl School made another happy Jubilee occasion. Their Majesties, who travelled in a closed car, were cordially cheered by crowds all the way from Buckingham Palace. The new school, founded through the co-operation of the Treasury and the London County Council, has been incorporated as a. college of the University of London. It appoints its own staff, the clinical members of which’ wfTl be full-time servants of the and not dependent! for their livelihood on private or consisting practice. of the four departments, medicine, surgery, obstetrics, and pathology has at its head a professor with readers and assistants and the school will offer facilities for medical men from this country and overseas to put themselves abreast of the latest developments. The King expressed an earnest hope that the school with its happv iii’or of wa.rd and laboratory, Univerrity rind local authority, drawing

■indents and teachers alike from all wits of the Empire, might prosper, lie said:—“May it play an Imperial rolp in the winning and dissemination of medical in relief of suffering among my peoples in this countrv and overseas, and enable doctors in all lands to eonw together in a 'task whore all must, lie allies and helpers. 1 ’ Mit Hales asked in Parliament if it were ’possible to hold, at the Albert Hall, a gathering of overseas visitors for the Jubilee. Mr Thomas ? aid he appreciated the motive but he afraid it was impracticable. There were numerous Jubilee functions, in which the Dominion representatives were participating.

DUKE VISITS LONDONDERRY. CATHEDRAL CATCHES FIRE. LONDON. Mav 13. A car load of nine police with loaded rifles across their knees followed the Duke of (Gloucester when he motored -Jirough the .mountains and boglands and villages from Belfast to Londonderry. The police and special constable' s , armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, stood at intervals along tho hundred-mile route, which passed within half a mile of th'* U ,p ‘ State border.

A fire in Chapter House, Londonderry Cathedral, broke on 4 ’. rvhile the Duke of* Gloucester was en route to the Cathedral. The brigade raced through crowds of spectators waiting to greet the Duke. The firemen rushed in and rescued valuable /-elic/s. The fire was still burning, but was under control when the Duke arrived.

Patrick Donaghev, a sixty-year-old veteran of the South African and •Great Wars, who participated in the British Legion parade collapsed and died immediately after the Duke’s inspection. The Duke received the Freedom of the City of Londonderry a civic reception before he visited the Cathedral. The fire, it is believed, was due to fusing of electric wires. The fire wag confined, to the Toof. Tn another part of the Cathedral, the Duke inspected relics of siege of Londonderry, usually kept in the Chapter House. DUBLIN. Mav 13 A Bomb Was thrown at midnight from a passing motor oar into the entrance of a suburban cinema, which was showing a nows reel of Their Sfoiestieq and the Prince of The bomb smashed glass and di d olll er fl m a o-o.