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His late Majesty, accompanied by Queen Mary, arriving for the open- ing of South Africa House, London, in 1933.
BODY OF LATE KING
AT WESTMINSTER
COFFIN RECEIVED BY ARCHBISHOP
GUNFIRE AND MUFFLED BELLS
London, Yesterday.
The body of the late King left Sandringham for the last time this morning, when the cortege moved slowly along snow-covered roads lined by sombre, black-draped crowds from Sandring-Iparade at the Royal Naval Depot Dockyard in 1895. ham Church to the station, taking an hour to
ARCTIC WEATHER cover the 21⁄2 miles.
IN AMERICA
DEATH ROLL AMOUNTS TO 200
vessel
BRITISH COAL DISPUTE
The cortege was formed after a brief service at the Church. Four Grenadier Guards walked on each side of a gun-çarriage bearing the King's remains. The late King's Pipe Major, Ma- jor Forsyth, piped his dead master from the church to the gun- carriage.
King Edward, his face lined with grief, walked immediate ly behind and then came his brothers, all wearing heavy fur- lined coats. Queen Mary drove in a closed carriage with the Duchess of York and the Princess Royal. The following cars conveyed the other members of the Royal family and Nurses Black and Davis, all the ladies being heavily veiled.
A pathetic touch was the inclusion in the procession of King George's white shooting pony "Jock"-Beuter's Bulletin Service
London later: The cortere of for Westerinster Hall to
His late Majesty photographed at inspection on
an early morning
ARRANGEMENTS FOR FUNERAL
ABOUT 3,000 TROOPS
TO PARTICIPATE
New York, Yesterday. Arctic weather, which has caused 17 deaths, has arrived in
London, To-day. The arrangements have practically been completed for Tues New York. Buffalo suffered the worst snowstorm for years
day's funeral The Royal train will arrive at Windsor at 12.15 Hundreds of vehicles are stalled in drifts, which even dety
pan and the gun-carriage will be drawn by bluejackets from the snow-ploughs. The Sheriff with a mounted posse reactied 100
station. school-children from buses buried in a 16-foot snowdrift at
attend The King, the Royal Princes and foreign monarchs will walk Clairesville, Ohio. A terrific wind tore the Nantucket shoals the late King, leaving King's the arrival of the funeral process immediately behind, followed by the Queen and the other larties lightship from its anchorage. A tender is chasing, the drifting Cross; was led by mounted police. Archbishop of Center-lin landans, and then will come the detachments-frum the three
Grenadiers Ranked-the-gun-car Mahy present remembered the 1,000. Foot Guscas lining the mile and a half-route,
bury formally Teived the cox services -About-3,000 troops will participate, including over Later: The Arctic weather ringe and exozzzuus crowds linedKing's last visit on May 8, when spreading from the Middle West the 24 mile route to Westmins in a brilliantly lighted and colour- George's Chapel includes the
The simple service at St.- and invading the Eastern States, tor, abug which the King and the fully thronged hall His Majesty King's favourite hymn "Abide in the form of severe blizzards, other male mourners walked a received the congratulations of with me." The Dean of Wind- knifelike winds and intense frosts foot. Gunfire and the sound of Parliament on the occasion of the sor will read the Lesson, and the There have been 48 deaths since muffled bells heightened yesterday, bringing the death roll solemnity of occasion.
the Jubilee To-day decorations were Archbishop of Canterbury, as of the cold spell up to 200...
Įstrikingly absent.
sisted by the Archbishop In the meantime Queen Mary, The temperature in New York the Princess Royal and the three the caufalque processions arrived chester, will take the service.
When the coffin was placed on York and the Bishop of Win- (to-day was 4 degrees below zero. Royal Duchesses entered cars and from the Houses of Lords and The streets were ice-bound and the motored to Buckingham Palace. Commons, headed respectively by
BUSINESS AT STANDSTILL trials of the citizens were angThey entered almost unnoticed, the Lord Chancellor
Business and industry through- mented by a strike of furnacemes, and all spent a short time there Speaker.
and the out British will
PICKED UP BY FISHERMEN stand still on which forced thousands
Tuesday, when King George is of before they left, heavily veiled, (Continued on Page 101
buried at Windsor, notwithstand-Murray, of the Far East Flying
Flight Lieuten, ul. W ing the decision mentioned yes School, and a pasager had a terday. All the large London thrilling escape fren death 'yes stores and many smaller busi terday when the machine which nesses are closing for the whole
Threatened Strike Averted
OWNERS' REVISED TERMS
ACCEPTED
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London, Yesterday. The amended offers for an in-tenants crease in wages made by the coal-
OWCTS
the miners' to
leaders
200+3.
to leave their beatless
3
In Boston. the temperature is were considered at a joint confer-falling rapidly. It is believed that
the 1933 record will be beaten- Reuter
ence to-day, as the views of the colliery owners are subject to the future relationship. The min- ers' executives are reporting to their executive to-night
ter's Bulletin Service.
VOTING ANALYSED
·HUGE DAMAGE CAUSED New York, To-day: Despite the Reu-New England and the
slight rises in temperatures
in
Middle West the Arctic cold continues to gzip the country. Hundreds of
KING'S MESSAGE TO
COMMONS
PREMIER PAYS TRIBUTE
London, Yesterday.
of
F/L. MURRAY'S ESCAPE FORCED LANDING "OFF MACAO
or part of Tuesday. The city ex was being pelated by the former changes, courts, schools and in-
to Macao made a forced landing stitutes are closing. The banks in the sea 10 miles from the will open, because banking hutzes Portuguese island. may only be altered by an Order
The pilot had picked his pas in-Council In the industrial senger up in the Colony, from the The Spencer and officers of the House wore their full-dressal armistice celebration will their way to Macao when engine
areas a hush similar to the an- as. Cathay and
they were. Од London, Later: The voting of thousands of dollars' worth of uniforms when the House of Commons re-assembled this after-fall on the busy factories. the conference of miners' dele damage has been caused by fires noom.
trouble threatened a forced land- gates which adopted the recum throughout the cold-gripped area ing. Mr. Stanley Baldwin, the Prime Minister, announced that Two minutes silence has been landed his
The benches were crowded with Members in deep momER- TWO MINUTES SILENCE
ing Fit It Marray, however, mendation of the executives with Half a block of business buildings the message from the King had been signed by his own hand fixed for 130 p.m. in London
machine in such regard to the owners' offer wes: was burned down in New Ulm. He gave the message to the Speaker, who read the following: Tuesday
on manner as to enable his passeng- For acceptance, 360,000; Against. Minnesota, and. three villages "Edward RI
er and himself to free themselves 112,000; Neutral, 34,000.
were destroyed in New York
(Continued on Page 1) The executive, in lodging
quickly, but the machine and the the
State
passenger's baggage went to the recommendations, considered the
(Continued on Page 9)
bottom of the sea. offers unsatisfactory, but recom- mended acceptance as an instal- (Continued on Page 14)
CAPTIVE OF BRIGANDS
Inhuman Treatment For Missionary
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HEAVY WEATHER IN BRITAIN
Scotland And North Districts Affected
London. To-day.
CORONATION NEXT YEAR
ON MONGOLIAN FRONTIER
Another Incident Reported
Moscow, Yesterday. Another frontier incident volving Japanese and Manchu kuoan troops has occurred, ac-
The pilot and his passenger. who thus found themselves: in bitterly cold water, were luckily picked up by a Chinese fishing boat and taken to Macao where they are now staying with Mr. G. P. (Geof) Lammert
in-that she had only a wire from her Mrs Murray said last night husband to say that he was safe.
LEVEL CROSSING TRAGEDY.
believed gave a stability to the "I am well assured that the body politic that most countries: House of Commons deeply moans would give all they possessed to the death of my beloved father have He devoted his life to the service While the temporal power of of his people and to upholding the crown had diminished, it constitutional government. He spiritual power was far greater was ever actuated by his profound than ever, and was not only a link sense of duty. I have resolved to holding together the country but follow in the way he set before the whole Empire of English- [me".
speaking peoples. It was an in- dissoluable link holding together: Mr. Baldwin proposed an ad-the myriad peoples of India Very severe weather conditions dress, conveying sympathy to ALL CHALLENGES MET are reported from the north of King Edward and assuring "His King George met the challenge cording to a message from Ulan- England and Scotland, and some Majesty that his father's example of the restest and swiftest bator, the capital of Outer Mon- Villagers relate that Mr. Scottish villages have been isoist of unselish devotion to public sar- changes unflinchingly,
and golia. Bosshardt, the missionary who ed for three days and a large vice would ever be held in affec-triumphed at a time when a slip. It is alleged that 2 Japan-Man- was captured by the Reds several number of sheep lost. In the tionate remembrance, and he also of speech or action wight have chuko detachment consisting of Ten Members Of One months ago, is too ill to walk Lake District shepherds had great posed a message of condolence wrought irreparable damage three lotry-loads of soldiers, with With his hands and feet bound difficulty in finding lost sheep, to the Queen."
King George never considered his five more in reserve, approached and slung on a bamboo pole, he which had been buried in the In the course of his speech he own ease of leisure. The sure the Mongolian outpost at Geng- was seen at Chihkiang, in south-snow-Beuter's Bulletin Service mentioned that the new King stinct of the people gradually dis his Khan, 15 miles Inside the would be crowned with the appro-cerned that whatever frailties and frontier, and opened machine-
Fort Wayne, Ind. To-day west Human, on December 31 and
There was a death roll of 10 January 1, when Ho Lung's Bed
priate pomp and ceremony at limitations might be attached to gun fire under cover of which in a collision between an auto Westminster Abber next year the King, his sense of duty to the Manchurians attempted to mobile and a train at a level forces were marching towards Kweichow.
Moderate to fresh northerly and He declared that the great achieve wards the people amounted to storm the outpost.
crossing, consisting of the fa Near Chinking he fell in the north-easterly winds, fine general-ment of the last center, which genius.
The Mongolians put up a stir ther, mother and seven out of river and was rescued by his capy, somewhat colder, is the fore culminated in the reign of King King George's power and in resistance and the attackers re-nine children. A women réla- toms, and continued his journey cast for to-day, as issued: this George, was the coming to teras fluence for good was enhanced treated, leaving
killed.tive was also killed, the other bitter morning by the Royal Observa- by democracy with the monazely. in a million ways by this.
two two children being gravely in
jured Reuter.
Hankow, Testerday.
with wet clothes in the cold Beuter.
bor
WEATHER REPORT.
‘evolving a unique zyskauf which hel-
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The Manchuriar
Mongollen, soldier
Family Killed