SATISFACTION PROGRESS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 9

SATISFACTION PROGRESS

FIRST TIME DOCTORS HAVE USED PHRASE. United Press Association —By Electrie Telegraph —Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 17. The Palace circles are pleased with the bulletin issued this evening. They point out that it is the first time tho doctors have used the phrase “satisfactory progress.” The qualification, “slow,” is understood to moan that if the progress is not faster it is, nevertheless, more definite. ' Commentators, however, are guarded, and emphasise that thero is still a lefig and tedious task ahead, but that it may be gathcrod tho King is gathering strength. Lord Dawson of Penn, Sir Hugh Rigby and Sir Stanley Hewett were in consultation at the Palace to-day-for 90 minutes. . The Lancet endorses the prognostications of tho Kndg’s medical advisors and states: • ' “At last we may indulge in the happy anticipation of his convalescence.” The Modical Journal states: “It may bo inferred without unduo optimism that His Majesty has definitely gained ground. Tho outlook is more hopeful than at any time in the past seven weeks.”