MORNING BULLETIN THOUGHT REASSURING

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 98, 7 December 1928, Page 5

MORNING BULLETIN THOUGHT REASSURING

NO REFERENCE MADE TO STATE OF HEART QUEEN LOOKED CHEERFUL WHEN DRIVING THOUSANDS AT PALACE GATES. TjTHICK FOG IN LONDON. SICK ROOM PRECAUTIONS. (Received 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, December 6. Thte morning’s bulletin is regarded as distinctly (reassuring and the absence; of any reference to the heart is considered a specially good sign. Lord Dawson arrived at the Palace at 9.30 and: remained in consultation wjith Sir Stanley Hewitt for an hour and a-half before he wrote the bulletin whf.ch was only posted at the gates at 11.30. Thousands outside the Palace awaited it with considerable anxiety. There had been continuous inquiries .all night, although the thick fog or,ado it necessary to strike matches and use electric torches to read tho bulletin. v • Elaborate precautions, were taken to prevent the fog penetrating tba Royal' compartments. 'Sir Stanley Hewitt immediately devised a. meth,od whereby the Palace electricians installed a special apparatus to prevent the fog reaching the sick room. Lord Dawsca .'returned at'2.3o p.m. and had a brief consultation- with