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No. 18678
五拜禮 號一十月二十英沿街
FRIDAY,
DECEMBER
11,
1936.
1日八十月十
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The Worlds
Master Tyre
"MR. WINDSOR" GOING ABROAD
GEORGE VI TO
BE PROCLAIMED IMMEDIATELY
Parliament
Hastening
Necessary Routine
LONDON, DEC. 10.
KING EDWARD VIII WILL SIGN HIS ABDICATION TO-MOR- ROW NIGHT AND WILL LEAVE THE COUNTRY IMMEDIATELY. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WILL RENOUNCE ALL HIS TITLES AND BE KNOWN AS MR. WINDSOR, BUT THE NEW KING MAY CONFER A DUKEDOM ON HIM.
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THE ACCESSION COUNCIL WILL MEET ON SATURDAY MORNING AND THE DUKE OF YORK WILL BE PROCLAIMED. KING IN THE AFTERNOON. IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT HE WILL TAKE THE TITLE OF GEORGE VI, WHICH IS HIS FOURTH AND LAST CHRISTIAN NAME.
NO DECISION HAS YET BEEN REACHED REGARDING THE TITLE THAT KING EDWARD WILL TAKE, AND NOTHING HAS THE REVENUES YET BEEN DECIDED REGARDING FINANCES. FROM THE DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND CORNWALL WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO HIM BUT WILL PASS, TO THE NEW KING. THE GOVERNMENT MAY ASK PARLIAMENT TO MAKE HIM AN ANNUAL GRANT, BUT HE MAY INTIMATE THAT HIS
PRIVATE RESOURCES ARE ADEQUATE.
At the suggestion of Major Attlee, the House of Com- mons adjourned until 6 p.m. when the Abdication Bill was introduced. It will pass through all stages to-morrow. When the Bill has passed through both Houses the King will give his assent to it-his last act as King.
Both houses will meet on Saturday afternoon for the swearing-in, which will continue on Monday, when Parlia- ment will receive a message from the new King and move the Address-in-Reply.
The accession meeting of the Privy Council will take place at St. James's Palace on Saturday morning and the proclamation of the new King will follow immediately.- Reuter.
renounced
WHOLE EMPIRE MOURNS
ABDICATION FELT KING'S WISHES
AS TRAGEDY
RESPECTED.
London, Déc. 10.
GOD BLESS THE
KING AND
QUEEN
KING GEORGE VI AND QUEEN ELIZABETH WITH PRINCESS ELIZABETH, HIEI R PRESUMPTIVE, AND
PRINCESS MAI GARET ROSE
PACKED HOUSE
HEARS HISTORIC WORDS OF KING Baldwin Brings Message
Of Monarch to Commons
KING TO ADDRESS EMPIRE
BROADCAST LIKELY TO-DAY
MR. BALDWIN'S ADDRESS
The address of the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, delivered to the Ilouse of Com- —MONIKE*LAs conatusion of the King's message, is fully reported on Page 7
LOYALISTS ATTACK
His Majesty King Edward | has expressed a desire to make a farewell speech to the people of his Empire before his abdica- tion becomes effective. In all probability his speech will be
Madrid, Dec. 19. relayed from Daventry to-day. The Catalan Government has an- A Daventry announcement at 7nounced that it will take the offen- been.. stated that the Ume of the orlive against, the insurgents on three
ginal broadcast by King Edward was fronts..
Another Government offensive has of the be made at the beginning of each started on a wide front, from Malaga
London, Dec. 10.
tranamlosion.
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to the west towards. Algeciras, The Listeners are advised to switch on their receivers at the following Government troops here are stated to
be heavily reinforced by Russians, limes, as being those most likely re- cordings of the King's speech will ve heard:
Never in its history has the House of Commons Parliamentary Routine ed, and hoped that it would not come
News of King Edward's ab- so packed as when the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldnot yet known, but recordings would to abdication", he continued. "The King Edward VIII has voluntarily King, however, has made his decl- dication was received with deep win made his momentous announcement
the Throne, for himself sion, and we cannot do otherwise than sorrow throughout the Empire. and his heirs, and a vast Empire has accept it. been plunged into mourning for a great monarch lost. The Abdica- Úon Bill is petore Parliament.
The King's messuLE to Parlia- ment,
read to a puented House of Commons, and later to an equally crowded House of Lords, was deli- and women made no attempt to hide
vered' umid a tense allence.
"the grief" "they" "felt,"
House Reassembles
Мел
Landon, Dec. 10. Following a brief recess, the House of Commons, reassembled.
The House of Commons was still packed with a tense) throng. when
In Capetown real sorrow and abdication of King Edward VIII, nine months a "The wish of all his people is that sympathy is perhaps the domin- sovereign. he will have a long and happy life.ant note of the reaction, al-
The country has received a severe shock froin which it will take time though the new King is certain to recover. The position of anyone to have a hearty welcome.
In tawa the regal constitution called upon to succeed to the Throne to-day is obviously one of great diffl- and human qualities of the King are culty. It will be our endeavour to considered to have made the abdlea-
lighten that burden."
Major Atlee, on behalf of his Labour colleagues, voleed his deepest sympathy towards Queen Mary.
Sinclair's Tribute
tion nothing short of a tragedy for the people of Canuda.****
"We all wish in our hearts that
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Broadcasting... Ceremonies
Daventry announced early this morning that His Royal Highness the Duke of York will be proclaimed King George VI on Saturday after- noon, probably at 3 pm. -Ġ.M.T.
Ceremony will, be The entire Transmission V, 7 a.m., GSD, GSC broadcast through the Empire net- and GSL.
work, comencing at 11 p.m. Hong- Frequencies and wavelengths of kong Time. the above-mentioned transmitters The broadcast will be made GSF through GSH (21,470 k.c.); are as follows:
(15,140 k.c.) and GSB (9,510 k.c.).
ZBW will relay the ceremony, which will be identical with that at the Proclamation of King Edward VIII Last January.
When the sitting opened every bench on the floor of the House was filled, except for the places reserved for the GSO and GSB. Prime Minister, Major C. R. Attlee, Labour leader, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Labour chief. The Peers', Dominions and Diplomatic Galleries were jammed and the King had acted otherwise," stated many were unable to obtain admittance, says Reuter. the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr.
There were 50 questions before the House and they were answer- Joseph A. Lyons) when announcing the abdication at Canberra.. "With ed quickly and almost inaudibly in the hum of tense conversation. All were most obviously conscious of the gravity of the most Sir Archibald Sinclair, Parliamen-deep sadness in our hearts we bid tary Leader of the Liberal Party farewell to King Edward and turn historic Parliamentary occasion since the outbreak of the War A
our thoughts to the new King, who the murky December afternoon drew on and faded, lights were is also a man we know and love." "We are bound to the King noti "It is one of the saddest days in switched on, throwing into greater relief the sombreness of the scene. only by formal and solemn
con- the history of the British People," Nearly everyone, including women, wore black as if to match the stitutional ties, but the closer and declared the New Zealand Prime gloom of their thoughts. more intimate ke which His Minister (Mr. Savage). He added
At 3.35 pm, Mr. Baldwin entered
whole-hearted cheer. He took his Beat between Mr. Ramsay Macdonald
the House resumed at G p.m. GM.T..} anid:
Major Attiec, leader of the Parlia- ́ mentary Labour Party, rose imme- diately after the resumption amid cordial cheers.
He said that the occasion did not mosty larged between himself and that the loyalty of New Zealand to They had heard the message from
call for long and eloquent speeches all classes, creeds, and races through the Crown was as strong and endure the House, receiving a restrained but the death of my father and I am
- the "King" with profound concern. out the Empire through nearly aling as ever.
The whole country had received the quarter-century of loyal service.
painful to us all, 'but particularly so
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The Hongkong Legislative Council will probably meet on Saturday morning to proclaim the Duke of York King George VI
FIRST TO VOLUNTARILY RENOUNCE HIS THRONE
the Throne to which I succeeded on
now, communicating this. my final and irrevocable decision. Realising as In Berlin the abdication is regard-and Sir John Simon and it was I do the gravity of this step, I can nows with deep sorrow, "and". `the The Mipture of these ties are ed as entirely an internal affair and noticed that he was very pale. Wear only hope I shall have the under- King's subjects would feel a sense of
therefore offeiuls refrain from coming a short black coat, striped trousers standing of my peoples in the de personal loss.
to his Ministers and advisers, and ment
and a black tle, the Premier rose and cision I have taken and the reasons Major Atlee pald a tribute to the above all to his Prime Minister."
Rome newspapers express regret walked slowly to the Bar of the which have led me to take it. I will King
and describe the Duke of York as House holding the paper bearing the not enter now into my private It Sir Archibald congratulated the possessing a severe sense of duty and announcement from His Majesty the feelings, but I would beg that "No British. monarch was better known to his subjects, both in Great Wisdom of the Government in re-love of ordinary
people
King and signed by the Royal hand.
should be remembered that the Britain, and throughout the Common- fusing to countenance any attempt Authoritative French comment re- He read the King's message.
burden which constantly rests on the King Edward VIII, who ruled for nine months, is the first wealth,"
he sald.
to divide the country on the ques-grets Edward's departure, describing
The announcement from Daventry, shoulders of the Sovereign is 30 British qonarch in history to voluntarily renounce the Throne. Only Edward VIII, continued tion.
him as a potentially great Monarch,
at 4 pm. Greenwich mean time, heavy that it can only be borne "Atlee, was a monarch who had
heard clearly in-Hongkong, was as in circumstances different from those two other British rulers, James II and Richard II have abdicated
In which I now. And myself. I con-
con-ench under compulsion. follows:
The Kings of Great Britain cannot was reached, despite James' protests Prime Minister came to the Bar duty that rests on me to place in the lawfully abdicate unless with the conAmong the most memorable abdi❤ of the House, and handed to the forefront the public interests, when I sent of the two Houses of Parlia cations in history may be mentioned. Speaker message from His Majesty declare that I am conscious that the King. Here is the text of the
can no longer discharge this heavy ment. When James T. after throw that of Sulin the dietator 70 B.C
ing the Great Seal Into the Thames, that of the Emperor Diocletian, A.D. with, sutls- fted to France is 1688, he did not 306, Napoleon Bonaparte, and faction to myself:) I havé, Speaker:
(Benedict: IX, The King's Statementy this morning executed an in- question was discussed in Farliament fear than For abdicated. The latter declalon gode ved
Major
but welcomes his successor us "It is largely due to the King that solution of a problem which had be shared the peopics joys and sorrows the Crown has not become involved gun fo alarm the whole of Europe. A quarter of an hour ago the ceive that I am, not overlooking the Hårmation K MEMBANGKAN
In the dark days of war. "We
know
in our political controversies," he Reuter.
said.
A
of his ready sympathy with the suffering," he said, amid cheers.
They had all been thinking of some way of solving the problem, he went
Must Accept Decision
We realised the great objection to Over Course that has been" surrest."
Sir Archibald agreed that the Gov- crnment was right to reject the pro
posals respecting a foorganntic mar-
Dublin, Dec 10,
DUBLIN STATEMENT
Making a statement to-day "Vin "Nobody deserves.
more generous tion, the Fremier of the Irish Freeway sympathy than the King," he said. State (Mr. do Valera) declared
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riage, ART NUMARALLEL ONA reference to King Edward's abdica message which was read by the task with cuiciency of wording formally resign, the Crown," and the Kaiser Wilhelm (of::GermTAL
tion, I have determined to renounce
Gazed trument" of abdication in the forms whether he bad forfeited, the Throne Colder tiny have
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