Infective Process being Held in Check: Some Improvement Reported in Condition of f Royal Patient's Lungs London, Nov, 30, A bullom was issued at Bue ingham Palace to-day at 1245 p.m. It is stated that the inflammation lof the lung and pleura shows some improvement and that the King's temperature is slightly lower.
It goes on, "The time of possible jexacurbation' of the infection, it) must be noted, has not yet passed Jand in any case progress must be slow.
It is authoritatively stated this morning that the King is a little better all round.
Sir Humphrey Rolleston, Physsician in ordinary to the King, has been called to the Place for consultation, The Home Secretary, Sir William Joynson Hicks, ix also at present inj the Palace for a consultation.
No bulletin is being issued to-day! until this afternoon owing to the fact that the doctors are reviewing the whole position.—Reuter, The Prince's Plans London, Nov. 29.
The bulletin issued this evening' states that the King Qad a quiet day with some sleep, otherwise the patient's condition remains unchanged.
Tt is understood that the Duke of Gloucester has not yet received the message sent him regarding his father's illness. No message therefore has been received in London from the Duke as regards his plans, but it is presumed here that he is his way to the agreed rondoztous with the Prince of Wales:
Reuter's correspondent at Johannesburg cables, however, that there are doubts of the ability of the Duke of Gloucester to reach Dar-es-Sal-amt in time to sail for home on the cruiser Enterprise, It is possible that it will be shorter for him to travel home via Cape Town, for when Inst reported he was shooting fon the Chambezi River and approaching Abercorn, on Lake Tang-It would' take him four has during the last few obtained. restful sleep in the time and this must be regented a extremely helpful tothe normal Process. of recovery.
"An oficial notice issued at Dare es-Salaam, Tanganyika, states. that nothing has yet been decided about the departure of the Prince Wates, who is staying at. Govern= ment House, His Royal Highnesd expects, however, to travel in. the cruiser Enterprise, which ts de to arrive at Dar-es-Salaam from Aden on Sunday.
"The Prince to-day drove out shopping in the town of Dar-eae Salaam, "Ho was followed from {shop to shop by an" enthusiastic jerowd of motives and Indians.
would appear that the Duke of Gloucester has not yet received news regarding his father's illness.
has been on a hunting expedi" tion and when last. heard of "wad near Abercorn, in Rhodesia. Thiq about 600 miles from. Dar-
Salaam and there is no railway communication, so that even if news reaches the Duke, it is not con" sidered possible for him to reach {Dar-es-Salaam in time to accor pany the Prince of Wales home.
Capetown, Nov. 30, At present it is very dificult ascertain the whereabouts of the Duke of Gloucester. He is believed somewhere between Abercorn and Broken Hill, There is no tele" feraph station at Abercorn but thers is a good rond from there to Broken, Till, 600 miles away.
The famous White Train, out which the Prince of Wales toured South Afrien in 1026, is waiting the Duke at Broken Till There isa shorter road to the aeroplane base of Ndola, south off Sakania and the original plan of the Duke and the Prince of Walea seas to meet at Broken Hill, Tt presumed that the Duke wil travel the White Tragn if Abercorn the first point of civilization. lid train to travel from Salis-head, to Cape Town. As an alternative, he might embark at Kitutu, at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika, and proceed by steamer to Kigoma, from which point he could travel by train to Dar-es-Salnam, a distance of 772, miles.
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