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FINAL EDITION

Court

Hongkong Telegraph.

POUNDED 1881

No 14709

# -NEƒƒF TUESDAY, JANUARY

1936. 21,

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PROCLAIMING NEW SOVEREIGN

EDWARD VIII-ASSUMES

KING'S DUTIES

DUTIES WITH PASSING OF GEORGE V

PARLIAMENT SUMMONED FOR IMMEDIATE SESSION

LONDON, JANUARY 21,

EDWARD VIII, ALREADY KING IN FACT, WILL BE FORMALLY PROCLAIMED AT A IT IS UNDERSTOOD HE PRIVY COUNCIL MEETING AT 4 O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON. WILL BE PROCLAIMED IN EDINBURGH TO-MORROW.-United Press,

London, Jan. 21. .

Edward Windsor, now King Edward VIII, fair-headed and still almost boyish- looking, on the death of his father, George V, soon before midnight, immediately assumed the sovereign powers which had been delegated to him, the Queen and his brothers barely twelve hours previously by King George as a last official act in the busy life of that monarch.

The new King will be proclaimed to-day.

News of the sovereign's death was flashed immediately to all parts of the Empire and to all the King's Ministers who were not already at Sandringham.

Steps, were immediately taken to summon the Privy Coun- |====

cil, at which the oath of allegiance will be taken by King Edward. This ceremony will probably be held in St. James' palace to-day.

The new King will be proclaimed in accordance with traditional unge from the steps of the Royal Exchange, Lon- don, with the historic phrase: "The King is dead. Long live the King."

Within a few minutes of the-official announcement of the King's death, the roar of a powerful car broke the silenec at Sandringham. It was speeding to London carrying a King's Messenger to inform the Prime Minister of the tragedy.. -The-Queen-herself had, telephoned p the news to absent members of the Royal Family, notably the Duke and¦

NEW SOVEREIGN

Sandringham, Jan. 21. With the last heart-lient of King Duchess of Gloucester-in Buckingham George, the Prince of Wales, Palace, the Duchess of York, who is bachelor of forty-one, became Edward it Windsor, the Duke of Comaught Vill of England, asuming the role to

B

COLONY MOURNS MONARCH

GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST

HU HAN-MIN'S MESSAGE

at Bath, and the Queen of Norway which destiny and birth assigned him appeared in n-Government Guzrtie

at Oslo.

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The following official notification Extraordinary issued this afternoon:

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S

King Edward left his father's death-bed early-in the morning and King Edward remained up until the after consultations with the Duke of York and the King's Secretary, loft arly hours of the morning in con-for London. ultation with the Duke of York and The Privy Council immediately met Lord Wigram, the King's Secretary, at St. James' Palace when the King' lout the funoral, the lying-in-state left for the capital and prepared to Governor has in open that Ha

proclaim the

Several Follow.

DI

DEPARTMENT.

No. 81. With deepest grief the Majesty King GEORGE THE FIFTH ruler. new ind other ceremonini matters.

announcementa

passed away just before midnight an will

innunry the 20th. 1936. H's Ex- The new King is travelling to Lon-igned by the male members of the cellenes requests that the inhabitanta

Reynl

Archbishop Family the lon to-day by motor car, for cere nonies in conjunction with the meet-Canterbury, the Privy Councillors in of the Colony will wear mourning for

attendance and the Lord Mayor of period to be specified in a

Gazette. ng of the Privy Council, at which the London, aldermen and other city Archbishop of Canterbury and the officials, making known the King's Home Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, death and proclaiming the new King. will be present.--Reuter,

PARLIAMENT TO MEET

London, Jun. 20.

The King's death necessitates ilic mmediate meeting of Parliament and both the House of Lords and House of Commons will meet at 8 o'clock to lay when tho Home Secretary will oport to the latter His Majesty's leath. Thereafter the House will djourn and will only reassemble the

o the now King.

PARLIAMENT'S MEETING

later

W. T. SOUTHORN, Colonial Secretary. January 21, 1930.

The news of the King's draih, Both Houses of Parliament meet.io-though not unexpected, cast a deep day and next week, and formal pro- glo-m over the whole Colony, Many clamation of the new monarch will be restonts first heard the confirmation made in a few days.

of His Majesty's demise direct from With the King's death, Great the Daventry speelal broadcast, while Britain is without a Prince of Wales the extra published by the Telegraph

haught up by people on) for the first time in ninety years. It is understood that the titles of Prince their

office, of Wales and Duke of Cornwall may

everywhere, on Government

was

be merged with the Crown. The title buildings, naval ships, military esta

GRIEF SWEEPS BRITAIN WHEN

DEATH TAKES RULER

The lato King George the Fifth, whose death is mourned to-day throughout the British Empire and the entire world.

WORLD GRIEVES

FOR DEAD KING

EMPIRE FILLED WITH

DEEP SORROW

London, Jan. 21. Men and women in the big cities of the world, on the African veldt, in the backwoods of Canada and in all the out- posts of Empire are filled with the great sorrow of the King's death. Less than a month ago they hoard the voice of the beloved ruler wishing them health and prosperity. It was through the same medium that they heard word of his passing.

The following Router messages reveal how His Majesty's death shocked-foreign as well as British countries:

ollowing week to wear allegiance ture nuke of York is the Heir tolled, telling of the passing of the on the grand boulevards, from Mont-

King will take precedenco.

York

far twenty minutes.

CONDOLENCES

CROWD KNEELS IN SNOW TO PRAY

TOUCHING IN CIDENTS AT DYING KING'S SIDE

London, Jan. 20.

The Empire has lost not only a great King but a great gentleman, is the comment of the man in the street on the passing of George V.

It was the best death that could be wished for him, however. The end was quick and his suffering was very slight. Also it was the death His Majesty would have preferred, at his home in Sandringham, which he always loved best. Here he felt at ease and could talk or shoot or ride like an ordinary English.gentleman..

The King was without pain in the end, and passed in complete peace.

(OTKA OVAT ZA

TO REVIEW LIFE

-OF MONARCH

Studio Talks Over

ZBW To-day.

Owing to the death of His... Majesty, King George, the musical programme from Z.B.W. Hongkong has been suspended for to-day.

At 5 p.m. the Hon. Mr.. R. H. Kotewall will broad-. cast an address in Chinese on the late King and at 8.05 p.m., Sir William Hor- nell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hongkong, will broadcast a similar talk in English.

Apart from these studio talk, only news and weather

forecast will be given from Z.B.W.

de facto and de jure, until the coronn- tion.

LYING IN STATE Arrangements are going forward for the King's lying-in-state, which will probably be Westminster Albes

Mesewhile, the King's body wi'l haj taken to the little church of St. Mary Magdalene, where he so often wor hipped and will remain there until funeral arrangements aro cumplated. ---Reuter.

TENANTS' VIGIL

London, Jan, 20. There were touching scents at Ja bilee Gate pt Sandringham during th evening and the night where tenant of His Majesty's estate and villager waited to heas the last

ces of the watchers Renter's

Bad

news.

Bayr

The acc.al correspondent, word.

of grim solemnity as they an adonly stem in the darkness. The

und in the trees and the weep fto was the whistling of the Bound wind

ntions of the village clock. Only a dared to speak, and then only in hushed tones.

secmed to. bo glad when

Low

Yet

the

end

nost

came. They realised that the King himself would not have desired anything botter than to die on a rim- pie country gentleman amid the rura!! surroundings of his beloved Sandring. ham.

"The last bulletins brought scores a When his doctors realised that the cars from many miles distant, while i ond was only a matter of minutes the neighbourhood of the town of they summoned the Queen and her King's. Lynn, with which the Roya children to the sick-room. The Royal Family had close affiliation, peopl Familly had been waiting many weary stood listening to the radio messages hours an adjoining room and they heard through the deliberately open walked sadly into the death chambered doors of private houses. Even th where all gathered around the King's bitterly cold night did not deter man; bed and gazed upon the tired, "frail women from joining the vigil. figure as he breathed his last.

The light which up to this time ha The Queen, who had maintained her burned brightly in the Queen's bed iron self-control throughout the long room window was dimmed at 11 anxious days of her husband's illness, o'clock-Router. broke down at the end. She turned to her son, the Prince of Wales, and

his father died she, affectionately. ambraced the now King.

was a dramatic incident Each of those present took one last when the last bulistin was posted out- loving gaze at the features of side Sandringham House.Down the

the doad monarch and then, terribly darkened drive a bare-beaded youth moved and controlling their feelings came riding a bleyela as swiftly as with difficulty, they returned to the he could peddle, the oil lamp flicker- room where they had spent so manying in the wind but dimly. The boy hours waiting for the last summons grasped an old brown leather hand- and did their best to console one an-

bag and his handlebars.

zhez.

Foreign diplomate and representa- tives of the Chinese Foreign Ministry hastened to call on the British Consul-General to offer condolences.

A It is announced that, the Chinese Government will observe appropriate body is conferring upon the mathods of expressing a special mark of sym pathy In view of the prominence of.

Six hundred British school children, attended a memorial service, this morning-Reuter.

ach of the seventy years of the as the new King is one of the strong which the into King was Patron, flags King's "wisdom, moderation and the British community.

King

life.

· UNIVERSITY CLOSES At the University of Hongkong, of

were flown ut half-mast, and it was announced that the University would bo. Immediately closed as a mark of respect to the late sovereign.

Thero

LAST BULLETIN

FRANCE'S, TRIBUTE

Paris, Jan. 21. of Prince of Wales is not hereditary blishments, the banks, clubs, business but in conferred on the Heir Apparent houses and private residences were The news of the King's death at by the sovereign by special investi-soon flying at half-mast.

Sandringham swept like a wind across The belin from St. John's Cathedral Paris. In the restaurants and cufes marire to Montparnasse, the Dows Orders have been given for the resumptive, but any sons of the new King, the "Passing. Bell" being runt pasasu, quickly from mouth to mouth. mourning rites while the diplomatie Javy and Army throughout the The suggestion in some circles that

In the streets small, scattered groups world to go into mourning. Minuta the Prince of Wales might abdicato in

stood bare-headed in allenco. uns will be fired at noon to-day for favour of his brother, the Duke of

French official circles recall the late is regarded as an Improbability

ter loyalty."-Neutor: advocates of constitutionalism, to which he subordinates his own feel

SHANGHAI GRIEF inga.

Queen Mary now becomes the Queen

Shanghai, Jan. 21. Mother still remains the Empire's All entertainment in the Colony will News of the King's death"

spread first ranking lady as long as the new be cancelled owing to the death of His with great spoed in Shanghai th's King romains unmarried., 'She will Majenty. The dance arranged for to- continue to take precedence, and to night at the United Services Recrea-morning. Hurrying to work, the act as emelal hostest at Palace function Club has been cancelled, it is an urning crowds of inquirers had time has deeply impressed German Govern-which had lasted so many years was Gate, the servant walked across the

to stop at the British Consulate to ment, circles.

In which it was The Criminal Sessions, which were word that the King was indeed dead. statos

ask the latest news, or to confirm the official messages to have been resumed to-day, have

"The death of the King evokes the Flags been adjourned, and Mr. Justice Hay-

entire German people..

The announcement of the King's leath was posted outside Buckingham Palace at 4 a.m. where a silent crowd

tood with bare heads.

NEW KING'S MESSAGE

The now King's telegram to the

Ford Mayor of London stated:

"I am deeply grieved to inform you hat my beloved father, the King, passed away peacefully at 11.55

tions. United Press:

LONDON HEARS NEWS

nounced.

were “at.... half-mast on nearly all ́__Chinezo and

BERLIN IMPRESSION

Berlin, Jan. 21.

The death of George V of England

Router WAN given

Ho dismounted at the lodge gates and handed the handbag to a Royal QUEEN INCONSOLABLE contained aside the lodge. porch. servant who extracted the bulletin. It

Her Majesty the Queen is incon- Slowly, in the light of the two great solable, however. The happy union lanterns which surmount the Jublica over and the new Queen Mother wept drive and handed the balletin to the and sorrowed like any other loving policeman on duty there, who affixed wife, but not until everything which it to the oaken frame in the gateway.

Tho mesango It bora was passed was expected of her as Queen had

from mouth to mouth in whispers. London, Jan. 29. The B.B.C. broadcast the announes-death in Court this morning,

The Archbishop of Canterbury, sus Thon a dead silence fell. It lasted us in the

the old and dearest friend of the until the light in the King's chamber In response to a request from the ment of the King's death throughout We are informed by the Adjutant of other foreign and British warships in

monarch, and the priest of the King's was extinguished shortly before I am. ed the King as a chivalrong man who Tome Secretary the big boll of St the Empire at 12.15 am.. after which the Hongkong Volunteer Defence the Whangpoo, including a Italian Great War, the German people esteem

The lights In Sandringham House parish, stood by the Royal Family blazed throughout the night. The Paul's will be tolled from 8 a.m. to all radio stations in England were Corps that all parades for to-night at gunboat, showed drooplag ensigns.

while the King was expiring. p.m. to day.

closed

Volunteer Headquarters are cancelled, The Italian Consul-General, Com- proved a notable opponent and. Im-

mediately after, the war did the best The constitutional procedure was now King was in consultation there. Cannons were fired at St. James' The Burns' Night dinner which was mander Neyrone, said:

he could to rebuild the broken bridges followed. The death was verified by Router. The King's condition has been the Park and the Tower of London, an-to have taken place on Saturday night, "British and Italian political diffor- between the two nations."--Router. His Majesty's doctors and the Home no tople of conversation during the nouncing the death. The announce is amongst the public functions to be ences do not affect the feelings of

Secretary, Sir Samuel Hoard, was

SINKS INTO COMA · work-end and the West End rea;ment was also read in London cabe-cancelled.

despent regret of the Italian cian-

DEEP SYMPATHY:

then officially personally soo the In the early evening Is Malosty

The Home

London, Jan. 81. aurants were filled with sorrowful rets, theatres and restaurants, where “An official statement will be issued munity in Shanghai, which bolda

Secretary must nen, and women early this morning, orchestras played the National An-in Hongkong during the course of the nothing but admiration · for His

Now York, Jan. 21.

body of the sovereign,

In order to want into a semi-coms, gradually waiting, to read full details of His them, the crowds then dispersing in day regarding local arrangements and | Majesty's magnificent; struggle to Thousands of New Yorkers throng- confirin his death.

the period of Court mourning overcome his illness as well at the ing the Great White Way of Broad Then, together, the remaining momness without any final word,REATE Majesty's last hours

Let me drifting into completo unconscious www.accordance with tradition. With heavy hearts and faces ro- Tom," the great ball

at Naval authorities are awaiting Ad- kingly, spirit which has always way, with its myriad lighta flash'umbers of Rogoney offers the throne to freting their sorrow crowds silently at Poter'n, tolled until, B

ammiralty signals for the procedure to animated his words and deeds through through the snow, paused on hoaring the Prince of Wales. The Frinos on of her husband & until the Bar

With the Queen, holding the hand mended thate way: Homs-Beuter : Tuffed Presid

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den made a reference to the King's i balidings, H.M.S. Capetown grief and sincere sympathy of tho heen minutely carried out.

all Government stood again ough ́his.

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