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DEATH OF RUMANIAN KING.

HIS GRANDSON DECLARED SUCCESSOR.

TROOPS IN BUCHAREST OCCUPY PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

REGENCY COUNCIL FORMED.

The demise of King Ferdinand of Rumanin has occurred, after a prolonged illness and several reports during the past two months that he was on the point of death.

Quiet prevails at Bucharest, where troops have occupied all the public buildings, meetings have been prohibited, and a press censorship has been established. All places of amusenient have closed.

A Regency Council has been formed, consisting of the late King's second son, the Patriarch, and the President of the Court of Appeal. The late King's grandson, Prince Michael, has been proclaimed King, and his father Prince Carol has been informed that his renunciation of the throne is to stand. The army is taking the oath of allegiance to the new King, Michael the First.

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A PRESS CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED.

Bucharest, July 20. ernment is determined to prevent The death has taken place of any attempt, at a coup d'etat by King Ferdinand. The Council of the Carolists.-Reuter. Regency has entered

its upon functions.

The Late King Ferdinand.

London, July 20. Ever since Queen Marie curtail- ed her American tour in responso to a symmons from Bukharest on account of the King's illness the health of Ferdinand threatened to. Then disturbing element in Balkan

politics.

Despite periodical re-assuring reports there has been little doubt as to the fatal termination of the malignant malady from which the King was suffering in addition to the menace of the trouble on the part of the supporters of former Crown Prince" Carol who is un exile in Paris,

THURSDAY,

JULY 21, -1927.

Prince Nicholas, the Patriarch, Doctor Chistes, and the President of State, it can be said that it was, of the Court of Appeal, M. eventful, as was to be expected of Buzdugan,

A rulor in the troubled Balkans.) The army le taking the oath of His occupancy of the Throne was loyalty to King Michael Immie-never free from cares of magni- are closed until further notice. diately All places of amusemeat tude, and the pre-war intrigues of his opponents were as great, a

The late King Ferdinand is to be buried on Saturday.

The Regency Council has been sworn in by the. National Assembly, when Michael was pro alaimed King Michael the First, and was ovated by the Assembly.

All meetings have been forbidden, worry as anything that subsc- and press censorship has been quently arose. Yet it can be said established.

that on the whole he had less anxiety, thun, his fellow monarchs of neighbouring territory, for his country onjoyed in the main the loyalty of its people to their rulers and freedom from revolutionary tendencies" so apparent elsewhere. King Ferdinand's necession to the Chance entered largely into

Throne.. The previous Rumanian King had no son to succeed, him,' so the heirship to the Throne fell to his eldor brother, Prince

-Reuter,

British Condolences.

London, July 20.

The British Government has Leopold. Leopold, however, re- to the Rumanian nounced his rights in favour of

addressed

Prince Carol.

Died Peacefully.

Bucharest, July 20. The King's gondition had grown Government a message expressing more serious during the past two its condolence an the death of

Wire days, and rapidly became worse King Ferdinand,British last night. The last sacrament less. was administered at midnight.

His Majesty was conscious throughout, and suffered no pain

A Government Majority.

Bucharest, later.

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his son William, and he in turn retired in favour of his brother Ferdinand, who thus strangely found himself, at seventeon, tho adopted son of his uncle, 'King Charles-Crown Prince. of Ruamnia and heir to the Iron Crown, fashioned from cannon 12 To. jump. |captured from the enemies of the country, won by his uncle on the bloody field of Plevna.

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up to young manhood in the simple of a musical composition, environment of the home life, 24 To loiter. beloved of all who knew him, & 25 Wigwam. clover scholar and poet, skilled in 20 Hypothetical structural unit. all manly accomplishments, and 23 Driving command. strikingly handsome.

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whose, studies and pursuits he 39 Prophet who trained Samuel. shared. In the Russo-Turkish war, 40 Railway station.. although he was only twelve years 42 cld at the time, he was indefati gable in tending the Rumanian 40 Knowledge transmitted praily wounded, spending long days by the bedside of the suffering and 47 Te colour fabric.

from father to gon. soothing, the last hours of the dying.

Romance first came into. Prince Ferdinand's life in,the guise of Helen Vacaresco, the most lovely of the then Queen's Maids of

at the end. Queen Marie, the The tranquilising" element will Queen of Jugh Stavia, the ex-King doubtless be the Parliament elect and ex-Queen of Greece, the childed last week, when the Govern-Hondur and her chief favourite. Heir Apparent (Prince Michael),ment obtained 70 per cent, of the But King Charles would not hear Printe Nicholas, and Princess votes in the Chamber, and 96 out of the future King of Rumania Ileana, were all at the bedside. of a total of 113 seats in the marrying his

Calm prevails in the capital. Senate.-Reuter

wife's Maid of Honour, however charming: and to Troops have occupied all the public buildings.

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No Fears of Carol.

Paris, July 201: Rumanian circles here are con-

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The news of the death was tele- graphed to the former Crown Prince Carol, whom the Govern- vinced that Prince Carol will not ment simultaneously informed of recans his undertaking to fus frm resolution to respect the nounce his hereditary rights, and decision of the Crown Council on not to return to Rumania for ten January 4, 1926, necepting Prince Yeara.-Reuter. Carol's renunciation of his rights to the throne, and declaring his. son Prince Michael the heir.

It was reported that is was the ambition of the Premier, M.

ship in the event of the King's Averesen, to establish a dictator-

death and this led to a crisis last. June, which Ferdinand himself dramatically solved from his sick hed by sending an official. Lo in- timate to the conference of party leaders under Averescu, that Prince Stirbey had been entrusted with the formation of a Cabinet.

Prince Stirbey's Gabinet was shortlived and was replaced by a coalition under M. Bratianu. Bath Prince Stirbey and M. Bratianu opposed the return of

Their Britannic Majesties have the ex-Crown Prince Carel. A Privately telegraphed condolences Council of Regency has now been to Queen Marie.

Queen Marie,

formed, hended by the Premier M.

"The Council of Regency. Bratianu and the Minister of War,

Bucharest, Inter. Angelesco. The troops have been The Council of Regency is to confined to barracks and the Gov- consist of the King's second ann,

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Late King's Career.

The late King Ferdinand of Rumania was born on August 24, 1865, and has thus passed away in his 62nd year. Succeeding his onele, King Charles, on October 10, 1914, he took up the destinies of his country at a most critical time of European history, and his demise is likely to raise problems of nearly equal magnitude.

He married Princess Mario of Edinburgh, a daughter of the late Duke of Saxe-Coburg Gothn (who wis a son of Queen Victoria) in 1893, and they had five children. The eldest is Prince' Carol, now aged 83, whose abdiention of the Throne, following a love affair outside the Royal circle, is the main cause of the present crisis in the Rumanian dynasty.

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Prince Nicholas.

is inexorable will the young

lovers had to submit.

But although this romance was heir apparent is his son, the youngthus nipped in the bud, happiness Prince Michael, who was born on October 25, 1922,

Of the other children of the late King, one is the Queen of King Alexander of Jugo Slavia, whom ahe married in 1922.

was not to be denied to Ferdinand; and it came to him in the guise of Princess Marie, daughter of the Duke of Edinburgh, whom, after a brief and happy wooing, he led to It will be recalled that the Kingo her now possibly falls much of the altar one January day in 1803, and Queen of Rumania paid &

State visit to Britain in the spring the burden of affairs of state, of 1934, and were accorded a great despite her omission from the welcome, as showing the friendly Regency Council. feeling that has always existed between the two countries, and especially as allles of the Great War.

Of King Ferdinand's career, up to the time that failing health rendered it necessary for him: a few years ago to retire from an netive participation in affairs

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