THE CORONATION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 26 April 1937, Page 5

THE CORONATION

BROADCAST BY HIS MAJESTY CLIMAX TO EMPIRE HOMAGE [United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] LONDON, 24th April. The King’s broadcast on 12th May will be approximately at 8 p m. British Standard Time, lasting ten minutes, as a climax to the programme of Empire homage. It will be preceded by five Dominion Prime Ministers and the Viceroy of India (the Marquis of Linlithgow). DEATH OF INDIAN DELEGATE’S WIFE Just before Sir Prabhashanker Delpalrarn Pattani left for the Coronation from India his wife developed pneumonia, but persuaded her husband to go to London without her. Sir Probhashanker Pattani arrived at Bombay but had a premonition he had seen his wife for the last time, so chartered an aeroplane and flew back. He intended to cancel his journey, but she told him that her greatest desire was that he fulfil the obligation to attend the Coronation. He agreed, but four lays after his arrival in London he received news of his wife’s death.

SECOND PROCESSION REHEARSAL

WATCHED BY THOUSANDS PEOPLE TEN DEEP AT WHITEHALL SUBURBANITES ENJOY FREE SEATS LONDON, 25th April. Londoners are acquiring the habit of early Sunday morning rising. Thousands were up at dawn for the second Coronation procession rehearsal, which was more elaborate ahd more authentic than the first. People stood ten deep at 6.10 a.m. at Whitehall. The spectacle was worth the sacrifice of a few hours of sleep. Suburban people enjoyed occupying ten guinea seats on stands for nothing, police in vans touring one section of the route asking the crowd to cheer as on Coronation Day in order to accustom the horses to the noise. The crowd needed no prompting. The crowds were denser than on the first occasion owing to increased transport facilities.

KING’S INVITATION TO MRS O'CONNOR

REGULAR ATTENDANCES AT ARMtSI’ICE COMMEMORATIONS "IT iS ALL VERY WONDERFUL” LONDON, 23rd April. "It is ail very wonderful,” says Mrs Mary O'Connor, of Sheffield, whom the King has invited to the Coronation. Mrs O'Connor, who had three sobs killed at the War, two wounded, and two others who have since enlisted in the Army, says she had feared she would have lo refuse the invitation owing to poverty. She was only getting the War Pension and public assistance aggregating 21s weekly, but she had been (old her expenses would be paid. Mrs O'Cononr, wearing her dead sons' nine medals, always attends the Armistice Day commemoration at Sheffield. The Duke of Windsor made a point of chatting with her whenever he visited Sheffield. (Received 2(Hh April, 10.55 a.m.) King George’s broadcast address to the Empire on the evening of Coronation Day will come as the climax to the programme of Empire homage in which five Empire Premiers and the Viceroy of India will take part. Mr Baldwin will be the last Premier to broadcast. He will speak a few introductory sentences which will bring the King to the microphone at Buckingham Palace. CROWN PRINCE MICHAEL TO REPRESENT RUMANIA (Received 20th April, 10.25 a.m.) BUCHAREST. 25th April. The fifteen-year-old Crown Prince Michael will represent King Carol at the Coronation.