Evening star., 1939-05-24
Queen Mary Eye
Found Injured as
Result Of Crash
Spent Restless Night,
Says Bulletin Issued
By Physicions

By the Associated Press,
LONDON, May 24.-Queen Mary
suffered injury to one eye when
her automobile overturned yesterday
and spent restless night, her doc
tors said today.
The physicians bulletin said:
Her majesty Queen Mary has
passed a restless night partly due
to injury to one eye which, al
though painful, is not a source of
anxiety.
Her majesty's general condition
is satisfactory"
Queen Mary will be 70 years old
on Friday.
Sir Richard Cruise, a famed spe-
cialist who is surgeon-oculist to the
Queen, called on her last night and
again today with other physicians.
Doctors attending the Queen
Mother remained at her residence,
Marlborough House, for more than
an hour before issuing the bulletin.
No other bulletin was expected to-
day.
In addition to Sir Stanley Hewett
and Lord Rawson of Penn, who
signed last nights bulletin saying
the Queen had suffered bruises and
shock, the physicians in attendance
were increased by the visit of Sir
John Weir, the first homeopathist
to be appointed to the royal family.
In 1923 Weir treated the then
Prince of Wales, but there was no
indication that todays visit was
suggested in telephone calls the
Duke of Windsor made from France
during the night inquiring as to his
mothers condition.
Weir placed the Prince of Wales
on a diet in 1923, eliminating cigars
and limiting him to four cigarettes
daily. In 1884 he also treated King
George VI, then Duke of York, for
an infection in his hand.
Children Visit Her.
All Queen Mary's children now
in London called at Marlborough
House-the Dukes of Gloucester and
Kent, with their wives, and the
princess royal, Countess of Hare
wood, and her husband
The six left soon after noon for
EPSON Downs to see the Derby
Queen Mary was to have gone along
but all routine engagements for the
next few days had been Cancelled.
Thirteen-year-o Princess Eliza
beth, daughter of King George VI
anH nnnny, E1iua
grandmother a letter of sympathy.
An orderly brought it from nearby
Buckingham Palace and it was put
ahead of thousands of notes and
telephoned messages for the Queen
to see.
Lord Dawson went to Buckingham
Palace, after seeing Queen Mary, to
draft an official cable of the doctors
bulletin for King George and Queen
Elizabeth, on tour in Canada.
Sometime today King George and
Queen Elizabeth were expected to
make a transatlantic cable call so
they could hear of the Queen
Mothers condition from her own
lips.
1t appeared likely that the Queen
Mothers birthday party, planned
for Friday, would be Cancelled, along
with other engagements.
Callers at Marlborough House last
night were amazed to find the
Queen walking about few hours
after she had been helped out of
her wrecked sedan in suburban
Putney.
Physicians expressed satisfaction
with her condition despite the JOLT
ing she got when her car was rolled
over on its side.
The front of a two-ton truck
loaded with steel bars for air raid
precautions signs caught a rear
wheel of the Queens topped
sedan.
Lady Constance Mines Gaskell.
lady-in-w waiting. suffered grazed
arm, but Lord Claud Hamilton, con-
troller in the Queens household,
escaped injury when they and the
Queen were tumbled together amid
seat cushions, flowers and broken
glass. The chauffeur, Oscar Hum
phrey, and a footman were shaken
but uninjured.
The footman was credited with
preventing a fire after the accident
by switching off the motor. No one
on the truck was injured. The truck
driver was not arrested. At his re-
quest, his name was not made public
by police.