The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-12-12
KING GEORGE IMPROVED,
SAY PHYSICIANS AFTER
OPERATION ISPERFORMED
Lung Is Punctured to
Relieve Congestion; Wales
at Bedside.
BY KEITH JONES


LONDON, Dec. 12.-An operation
was performed on King George to-
day.
Pus was drained off by punctur-
ing his lung. The process will have
to be repeated, his doctors an
nounced.
The doctors said "the slight i'm
provement" which they had noted
in a bulletin this morning was be-
ing maintained.
The minor operation was per-
formed after a consultation of the
kings physicians and the announce
ment was signed by all five doctors
Sir Hugh Rigby, surgeon to the
royal household and his majesty's
Surgeon-in-ordinary, was summoned
to Buckingham palace and arrived
at 5 p. m.
It was the first time that Sir
Hugh had been summoned since
the present illness Of the king.
He is senior surgeon of the Lon
don hospital and also is surgeon-in-
ordinary to the Prince of Wales
household.
The king recognized the prince
of Wales when the prince tip-toed
into his room at Buckingham pal
ace Tuesday night after his dra-
matte 7,000-mile race from east
Africa and attendants said he ap-
peared to rally slightly.
Youngest Son Called
But it was feared today that the
stimulus which the princes return
provided hardly was sufficient to
overcome the rigors of the kings
prolonged illness.
The apprehension was aggravated
this morning with the announce
ment that Prince George, youngest
son of the British king, had been
called home from Bermuda where
he had been with the British fleet.
Prince George is expected to arrive
in England on the Berengaria Dec.
90, his tweny-sixth birthday. He will
sail from New York Friday.
The prince of Wales eturned to
Buckingham palace shortly after
noon today for short visit.
There was magnificent drama in
the return of the prince of Wales
from his African hunting expedition.
The young man who set out so joy
fully only few months ago to be-
come bronzed under the African
sun, returned haggard and pale to
his fathers bedside. The long trip,
made in record time seriously had
sapred the princes vitality.
Visit Is Brief
For more than twenty minutes
after his arrival at the palace at
1924 p. M, the prince dared not
e~ter the sick room. He composed
himself during a long talk with his
mother, Queen Mary.
Accompanied by the queen and
his brother, the duke of York, the
pince entered the sound-proof room
in which his father is i'll.
Owing to court etiquette, no de-
tails of what actually tranSpired
ever will be known.
The visit to the sick room was
brief, for the physicians had warned
that the excitement of the king of
seeing the prince might overcome
the first BENEFITS of the eunion.
Queen Gets Some Sleep
The visit of the prince to the
palace was brief. At 11:24 p. M, the
high palace gates we're swung open
by guards and the prince, accom-
panied by the Duke and Duchess OF
York left for the dukes home in
Piccadilly. The Sentries came sharp
ly to attention as the Prince of
Wales passed out of the big court
yard.
After a few minutes stay at the
dukes residence, the prince left in
his own car for his residence, YORK.
House, up the Mall from Bucking-
ham palace.
After midnight only few scat
tered lights around the palace
grounds were to be seen. Palace of .
f1cials said the queen was asleep
the first real sleep she has had since
the king became i'll.
Sir Stanley Hewett, apothecary
surgeon to the king, spent the night
at the palace.
The king went to sleep almost i'm