MRS SIMPSON’S MOVES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 7, 7 December 1936, Page 7

MRS SIMPSON’S MOVES

TRAILED BY JOURNALISTS. IN SOUTH OF FRANCE. CALL TO LONDON. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. G. Airs Simpson reached Blois on Friday night. The Daily NJnil’s special correspondent at Blois says that soon after her arrival, Mrs Simpson put through a telephone call to London and remained talking nearly half an hour. Le Soir, Paris, published an interview with Airs Simpson, whom a reporter told that all France was following her story with the greatest interest. She replied: “You Frenchmen are most sympathetic, but most annoying. I have been unable to sleep for the last two days. At the last hotel 1 stayed there were 24 journalists. I am not getting much rest.” Replying to a further question she said: “I cannot make a statement. The King is the only judge.”

Though it is assumed that Airs Simpson spent the night at the Hotel de France at Blois, oil the River Loire, the British United Press agency says that she eluded watchers at 1.13 a.in. and left by car along the Bordeaux road which leads to Biarritz,. Police kept up a pretence of guarding the hotel long after she bad left, giving her three hours’ start on the escort of newspaper men. Next a Nice message stated that Mrs Simpson was expected at the Cannes villa of a friend, All's Herman Rogers. Eight large trunks and five valises arrived on the morning Riviera express labelled “Aliss Burke,” but bearing the initials “AA’.AA'.S.” Airs Simpson concluded a day-long dash to Southern France by taking at full speed at 11.33 p.in. on Saturday the narrow lane leading to Mrs Herman Rogers’s villa “Lou A r ei,” scattering 100 newspapermen and photographers awaiting her arrival. She flinched at Vienne, where she left the hotel by the back door and changed her motor-ear, as the one hitherto occupied bad become too familiar. She ate a cold dinner in the car at Avignon, fearing to meet journalists. A large crowd of inhabitants watched her arrival at Cannes, where English find French detectives are now guarding the gates of the villa. Workmen installed a special telephone which would enable Mrs Simpson to talk with London immediately she arrived.