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DUKE OF YORK TO BE PROCLAIMED KING GEORGE VI TO-MORROW
His Majesty King Edward VII will sign the Abdication Bill to-night, following which he will immediately leave England.
CHEERS FOR NEW MONARCH Demonstrations Of Loyalty
EMPIRE VOICES
DEEP SORROW -
"NOTHING SHORT OF A
TRAGEDY”
NEW ZEALAND'S LOYALTY AS ENDURING AS EVER
London. To-day.
News of King Edward's abdication has been received with from the deepest sorrow throughout the Empire. A message Capetown states that real sorrow and sympathy are perhaps the most dominant note in the reaction of the people, though! the new King is certain of a hearty welcome.
At Ottawa it is felt that the regal, constitutional and hu- Iman qualities of the King will make his abdication nothing short of a tragedy for the people of Canada, while from Canberra a message is to the effect that Mr. Lyons, the Australian Premier, in announcing the abdication, said that "we all wish most bezrti- ly that the King had acted otherwise. With the deepest sadness in our hearts we bid farewell to King Edward and turn our thoughts to the new King, who is also a man we know and love.” Messages from Wellington also show that the news was re ceived with the deepest regret. "This is one of the saddest London. To-day. days in the history of the British people." said the Prime Minis- Loyal demonstrations were wit-ter, Mr. Savage, who added that the loyalty of New Zealand to nessed in the West End-when the the Crown was as strong and as enduring as ever.
new King returned to his Piccadil-
ly home late last evening. Large crowds completely blocked the road- way and greeted the new King with rounds of cheers. The King saluted the crowd by raising his hat several times. After he had entered the house the crowd sant the National Anthem**
Every road leading to Piccadil- Jy was blocked by cars, taxis and buses while the crowd outside kept úp continuous shouts of "We want Albert" and "Long Live the King."
-Renter.
DESTINATION OF KING EDWARD UNKNOWN
London, To-day-King Ed- ward does not intend to go to Cannes, according to good cu thority. His destinatim will be kept a close secret until he has left-Reuter.
FULL TEXT OF BALDWIN'S STATEMENT
“I AM GOING TO MARRY" STATED KING ON NOVEMBER 16
London, To-day.
Never was the House .'of Commons so full as it was yes- terday. All the benches were of packed with the exception the places of the Premier, Ma- jor C. R. Attlee, Labour leader *. and Sir Archibald Sinclair. Liberal leader. The Feers", Diplomatic and Dominions' gal- leries likewise were very full and many were unable to ob- tain admission.
Fifty questions were quickly answered, mostly unaudibly amid the excited ham of the tense audience.
All were obviously conscious of the gravity of the most his- toric Parliamentary occasion since the outbreak of the War.
As the murky and fogg daylight the
от
December afternoon faded, the lights
throwing switched on, into greater relief the sombre- Nearly of the scene. ness everyone, including the wo men, wore black, matching the sadness of their thoughts.
were
PRIME MINISTER, ENTERS
Mr. Winston Churchill, above, said "I accept wholeheartedly the Premier's statement that the de- cision was taken by the King this week-end freely, volontarily and spontaneously in his own time and in his own way.” -
He
pathetic cheers).
1. In Berlin the abdication is
(Left) His Royal Highness the Duke of York, second son of His late Majesty King George V, whow accession to the Throne in succes- sion to His Majesty King Edward VIII will be proclaimed from St. James's Palace lo-morrow. (Right) Her Royal Highness the Duchess
of York
regarded as an internal affair LONDON PRESS VIEWS
re-
so that the officials are fraining from any form of com- ment
The newspapers in Rome, in expressing regret, describe His Royal Highness the Duke of York as possessing a severe sense of duty and love of the ordinary people.
KING
EDWARD AS MR. WINDSOR?
NO DECISION REGARDING
HIS FINANCES
ABDICATION BILL TO BE SIGNED TO-NIGHT
London, To-day.
At Major Attlee's suggestion the House of Commons ad-" journed wrtil 6 p.m. when the Addication Bill will be introduced to pass all stages in both Houses to-day. The King will sign the abdication to-night and then leave the country immediately. The Accession Council meets to-morrow morning and His Royal Highness the Duke of York will be proclaimed Fing to-morrow afternoon, and will, it is understood, take the title of King George VL
It is understood that King Edward will be renouncing all his titles and will be known as Mr. Windsor, though the new King may confer a dukedom on him.
When the Abdication Bill passes all stages in both HousBER to-day, King Edward will give his assent, which will be his last act as King. The Accession Meeting of the Privy Council will take place at St. James's Palace to-morrow morning and the pro- clamation of the new King will follow immediately. Both Houses will meet to-morrow afternoon for the swearing-in ceremonies which will be continued on Monday, when Parliament will receive a message from the new King and will move an address in reply.
No decision has been reached title King Ed- regarding the
has been made regarding his future financial standing. The revenues of the Duchies of) Lancaster and Cornwall will not
THE ONE WISH PEOPLE COULD NOT ward will take and no decision
GRANT BELOVED KING
London, To-days-
The Daily Telegraph says that the price of renunciation be available for King Edward. astounds the world. The King, who had won so completely the but will pass on to the new King. Authoritative comments., in
affections of his people, might have asked them almost any-The Government, however, may Paris regret the departure of thing and they would have given it with both hands. But there ask Parliament to make an an- a potentially great monarch
is always something which duty must deny, and it will be the nual grant to King Edward, but welcome the successor abiding grief of the thousands who loved the King that the one but, on the other hand he may Throne as the solution to a pro- thing he asked was the marriage which he deems necessary for intimate that his private re- blem which had begun to alarm his happiness but which they judged would be disastrous to the sources are adequate. the whole of Europe: Reuter-Crown and realm.
AUSTRALIAN APPEAL
King Edward's case stands dented decision, for it is proof of Canberra: Mr. Lyons, the Pre- mier, announced in the House of solitary and unique. The tra-obstinacy rather than strength,
Representatives yesterday that hegedy for the Empire is that it and that it must have been reach in the House of Commons, Ma-
now broken
*
LABOUR VIEWPOINT On the resumption of the debate
the columnted in the face of a very human re-jor' Ailee rose, amid cordial had sent a telegram to King Ed has ward, in the name of his subjects which might well have been luctance to abandon a position af- cheers, and said that the occasion in the Commonwealth of Austra one of the most stately pillars fording him so many proofs of did not call for a long and elo- quent speech. They had hear bia, asking him to continue to of a temple, but the temple SUCCESS.
The Daily Herald says that the the message from the King with reign over us."-Reuter's Bulletin still stands and, as we believe
it the event will prove it undecision the King took must have
profound concern and the whole Service.
news country had received the shakeable.
torn his heart, but it is one which with deep sorrow, and the King's AUSTRALIAN ACCORD
The Morning Post says it Canberra: The Commonwealth
will secure for him honest respect subjects will feel a sense of per- the Senate passed a resolution assent would be idle to belittle
sonal loss. Ing to the provisions of the Suc-heaviness of the blow which and sympathy, perhaps more deep- cession Legislation introduced by has fallen on the British people ly than could be won now than by the British Parliament. Reater and the British Empire. It is any other choice.
KING EDWARD TO BROADCAST? REPORT ISSUED
BY B.B.C...
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fortunate indeed that a Prince
so capable and so trustworthy
THE REAL CLASH
GOOD STATESMANSHIP
Major Attlee paid a tribute to the King when he said, "No Bri- tisti monarch was better known to
HEMEL, Stufe F Baldwing above,
that stated
Hit yesterday Majesty, the Eng/told him, an November-16, - -I am going to marry Mrs. Simpson and I am grepared
he will have a long and happy
SEVERE SHOCK
life. London: The Glasgow Herald his subjects both in Great Britain is at hand to take up the
the Commons- and throughout Royal burden so incontinently says that there was a period at the
The country has received a se- laid down, for he will have to beginning of the present week when wealth," who shared the joys andį. repair that hurt that has been there appeared to be some danger sorrows of the dark days of the vere shock and will take time to suffered and recover the ground of the situation leading to scate Great War. We know of be recover. The position of my lost. The nation must rally to divisions of opinion, but the cor-ready sympathy for the suffering body called to succeed to the rectness of King Edward's attitude (Cheers) They had all been thick-Throne today, is cbviously one of their new King.
and the statesmanship displayed ing of some way to solve the pro- great dificulty, and it is to be our by the Premier stemmed the food blem, but we realised that there endezvour to lighten that burden. Having expressed his sympathy London, To-day. The Times states that both the of rumour and innuends, and en- was a great objection to every Following his formal abdica- monarchy and the Empire have abled the nation to face the de course that was suggested and with the Prime Minister, Mr. Bald- only hoped that it would not come wit, Major Attlee, on behalf of tion, King Edward will broadcast been badly shaken but they can velopments calmly, and with a speech to-night in order to pay and will be restored, all the more proper appreciation of the issue homage to his successor, accord-rapidly because there is no longer involved. ing to an announcement issued by the slightest doubt about the duty the British Broadcasting Company laid upon a stunned and sorrow-j ist evening which, however, stilling people. They profoundly mis- lacks official confirmation.
understood the signs of division
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to abdication, but the Kag made his Labour colleagues, voiced the the decision and we cannot do deepest sympathy with Queer otherwise than accept it, and it Mary.
Effect On Stock Exchange
is the wish of all his peoples that Sir Archibald Sinclair stated "We are bound to the King not only by the formal solemn con- stitutional ties, but by the closest King Edward. will probably in this country and represented
intimate links which the King har the issue between speak from Sunningdale, but it is it as
forged between himself and all considered that it is not unlikely "people's King" and a hidebound)
†classes and creeds of the races of that he will address his former set of aristrocrats and ecclesias-
London, To-day-The city re heavy financial commitinents de the Empire through nearly a quar- subjects from some place abroad.tics. It would be far more accur-
** announce pendant upon it, but
ter of a century at-koyal service. The Baltic States have welcom - The rupture in this connection has ever been received by Par King Edward spent yesterday at ate to say that His Majesty's circeived the abdication
relief. Loudspeakers ed the Duke of York's accension to is painful to us all, particularly Mr. Stanley Baldwin enter-lisment and no more difficult, Fort Belvedere examining official cle was too largely composed of ment with mixed feelings of re-
documents, and the Duke of Yorkmen and women, some of them of gret and ed at 3.35 pm, and was receiv
I may almost say repugnant,
above all to the Prime Minister. ed with a restrained but full task has ever been imposed paid him a visit there last eve-high birth, all of whom were re brought the news to the Stock the throne with cheers and "God to his Ministers and advisers and and wholehearted. cheer.
DE DESERVED GENEROUS sat between Mr. Ramsay Mac upon a Prime Minister (Sym-as having's long conversation mote from "the people who ear. Exchange, where it was received Save The King
MAN BYMPATHY with his brother.---Trans-Oceaned less for his welfare than their silently brokers: immediately The wheat market remains"very ¡Service,
own, amesementThe real clash (breaking up into small groups and firm, the nearer position closing this morning's
Sir Archibald Sinclair, ́ congra- was between the thoughtlessness discussing the topic approvingly, even higher than
tulated the wisdom of the Govern- . The Premier was very pale. "I would ask the House
of an exotic society, and the hard Prices showed a tendancy to high level.:
A similar reception was accord-ment in discountenzacing any at- He wore a short black coat, which I know will not be with-journment.
FULL ACCOUNT
core of British tradition of con-rise beyond the already firmer striped trousers and a black tie out sympathy for me in my
salesrooms, where question. It is largely due to the Mz Baldwin. rose slowly and position to day (Renewed sym-I shall have little or nothing duct which is common to all official close, though traders were ed by the Rubber change in tempt to divide the country on the
generally inclined to leave the commercial
prices, however, showed. no King that the Crown will not be- walked to the bar of the pathetic cheers) to remember to say in the way of comment classes in this country zda bu
HARD PATH RAMA public to make the next mov House, holding a paper, and that during his last week Tor any criticism or praise or
None of us can realise how hard The question now nppermost in change and business was restrict-come involved in our political controversies and the spesicer announced a message from the have had but little time in blame. I think my best course King, "signed by his own hand which to compose a speech for is to tell so far as I can what is the path of the King in choos- the minds of the people is whe-ed to a minimum. *
Mr. Baldwin said: "I have to delivery. So I must tell what passed between His Majsety ing good friends. That, amid ather steps should be taken to Sterling responded with a de agreed with the Government in
which weakened. totic marriage proposal, move His Majesty's most graci I have to tell truthfully, sin and myself and what led up to his great qualities there was also maintain the previously fixed finitely farmer trend in terms of their right to reject the morgana
soraething lacking in himself, is Coronation date, which, it is point-Idollars, ous message to be now con-icerely and plainly with with no the present situation. ----
(Continued on Page B.).. sufficiently shown by his unprece-led out, is vital in view of the 4.90.5/16-Beuter. sidered. No graver messageattempt at dressing up or að-
Donald and Sir John Simon..
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