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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1936,

KINGS"I Renounce The Throne'

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PACKED HOUSE HEARS HISTORIC

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WORDS OF Baldwin Brings Message Of Monarch to Commons

London, Dec. 10.

Never in its history has the House of Commons been so packed as when the Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Bald win made his momentous announcement of the abdication of. King Edward VIII, nine months a sovereign.

REACTION OF THE NATIONS

JAPANESE PRAISE FOR BALDWIN

CHINA DEEPLY

IMPRESSED

Tokyo Asahi, praises

Tokyo, Dec., 11. The big morning newspaper, the Mr. Stanley Baldwin's efforts to solve the British

constitutional problem without the King's abdicatlon and expresses the hope that King Edward may enjoy married life as a private citizen.

The Tokyo Nichi Nicht adds that the people of Japan sympathise with with those

King Edward and also who were compelled to face the great problem-United Press.

INFLUENCE ON CHINA! Offeinir in Nanking believe the abdication of King Edward will pro- foundly Influence" Chinese youth in Zavour of love matches, as opposed

the United Press,

When the sitting opened every bench on the floor of the House was filled, except for the places reserved for the Prime Minister, Major C. R. Attlee, Labour leader, and Sir Archibald Sinclair, the Liberal chief. The Peers', Dominions' and Diplomatic Galleries were jammed and many were unable to obtain admittance, says Reuter.

There were 50 questions before the House and they were Answer-lo obligatory arranged unions, szys ed quickly and almost inaudibly in the hum of tense conversation. The North China Daily News,

All were most obviously conscious of the gravity of the most historic Parliamentary occasion since the outbreak of the War. As the murky December afternoon drew on and faded, lights were switched on, throwing into greater relief the sombreness of the scene. Nearly everyone, including women, wore black as if to match the gloom of their thoughts.

tia, the Biped tro

Shanghal, in an editorial, says: "The abdication will be hailed with deep ness that no momentous issues are regret yet with a certain thankful- at stake."-United Press.

CORONATION PLANS

Tokyo, Dec. 11.

Household is understood to be con- The Ministry of the Imperial tinuing its plans to send a delegation to London for the Coronation of the King of the British Empire as soon they have received official notifica- tion of the date. It is expected that Prince Chichibu will go to Londen

previously arranged. and

At 3.35 p.m., Mr. Baldwin entered my leave of them in the confident the House, receiving a restrained but hope that the course which I have whole-hearted cheer, Ile took his thought it right to follow is that sent between Mr. Ramsay MacDonald which is best for the stability of the and Sir John Simon and it

was Throne and the Empire, and the noticed that he was very pale. Wear-happiness of my peoples. ing a short black coat,

trousers and

black

reso and

"I am deeply sensible of the con- walked slowly to the Bar of the aideration which they have always House holding the paper bearing the extended to me, both before announcement from His Majesty the after my Accession to the Throne King and signed by the Royal hand. and which I know they will extend

He read the King's message.

in full measure to my successor, The announcement from Daventry,

A

follows:

at 4 p.m. Greenwich mean time,. "I am most anxious that there be heard clearly in Hongkong, was as no delay of any kind in giving effect to the instrument which 1 have A quarter of on hour ago the executed, and that all necessary Prime Minister came to the Bar steps should be taken immediately of the House and handed to the to secure that my lawful successor, Speaker a message from His Majesty my brother, His Royal Highness the the King. Here is the text of the Duke of York, should ascend to the message which was read by the Throne.~EDWARD, R. I." Speaker:

Sherily afterwards,

Daventry

The King's Statement "After long and anxious considera-in came through, and the an the Throne to which I succeeded on win's address to the House of Com- tion, I have determined to renounce in dress the text of Mr. Bald-

the death of my father and

mons, after the reading of the King's

I am

and irrevocable decision. Realising as

ously given to the House of Lords

now communicating this, my fan message, which had been simultane- I do the gravity of this step, I can by Lord Halifax, Lord Privy Seal. only hope 1 I shall have the under- The announcer said: "The King's standing of my

peoples in the de-message was listened to in profound cision I have taken and the reasons silence, after which hir. Baldwin rose which have led me to take 悲 will

to address the House." not enter now into my private feelings, but I would beg that it should be remembered that the rests on the

burden-which-constantly is so

shoulders of the

heavy that it can only be borne in circumstances different from those in which I now find myself. I con- ceive that I am not overlooking the duty that rests on me to place in the forefront the publle interests, when declare that I am conscious that I can no longer discharge this heavy task with efficiency or with satis-

faction to myself. I have according-

NO OFFICIAL

WORD SENT

TO COLONY

Tho Hongkong Government

is

ly, this morning, executed an ini awaiting official advice and directions !trument of abdication in the terms from London regarding the abdica

following:

ADVENTURE

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Fr. N. Macstrini, of St. Teresa's

Church, Prince Edward Road, was

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newspapers.

interested in the London bulletins. The Japanese people are keenly but there is little comment in the Informed. quarters do not believe the King's abdication will alter Britain's international

relations.- United Press.

AMERICAN VIEW

Buenos Aires, Dec. 10. Oficials close to the United States delegation to the Pan-American peace conference said to-day that King Edward's abdication "only goes to show the situation in Europe is more unsettled."

Delegates generally believe the abdication will reveal intricacies in the European political system which will result in closer unity of the Americas.

да

Brazilians interpret the abdication British Royal Family." They foresce the possibility of repercussions, ac- "a blow to the prestige of the

companied by a subtle diminution of Britain's

inquence-United Press.

moral

Japan Takes Precautions

·To Guard RIGHTS IN CHINA

"I, Edward the Eighth, of Great tion of King Edward and the access-

Tokyo, Dec. 11. Britain,

Ireland, and the "Britishion of the Duke of York.

Japan is prepared to take adequate Dominions beyond the Seas, King,

measures should Japanese lives and Emperor of India, do hereby de told The Telegraph this morning that Japanese rights violated, said a The Colonial Secretary (Mr. Smith)property in China be jeopardised, or clare my irrevocable

cable determination so far no oficial information regard-spokesman of the Foreign Omce, in to for

one for myself,

ing the events in London had been the course of an explanation of the my descendants, desire that effect should be given moment.

and my received, but it was expected at any present status of

renounce the Throne

negotiations in

in Nanking-Japanese

added, they would be communicated Japanese Incidents and the resultant The spokesman recapitulated anti- to the public through the Press.

nogotiations from the Changtu affair of August 10, and declared that the Chinese Government accepted the four points mentioned on December. 4, but subsequently the Chinese Government "took advantage of the East Sulyuan question to threaten and repudiate them."-Reuter.

to this instrument of abdication When directions were received, ke Immediately. In token whereof I have hereunto set hand, this tenth day of

December,

1030, in the presence of the witnesses whose signatures are subscribed.

(Signed) EDWARD, R. L.- "My execution of this instrument has been witnessed by my three brothers, Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of York, the Duke of Glouces- ter and the Duke of Kent.

Appreciation of Loyalty

"I deeply appreciate the spirit which has actuated the appents which have been made to me to take

a different decision, and I

I have, be

BRIGANDAGE WIPED OUT

- ITALIAN STATEMENT FROM ETHIOPIA

Rome, Dec. 10.

The Italian Government has issued fore reaching my final determination an emelal communique on the situa most fully pondered over them. Button in Ethiopia.

TELEPHONES SOLACES

my mind a fully made up. More- The statement says that a punitive MRS. SIMPSON TALKS

over, further delay cannot but be expedition in the Harar district has most injurious to the peoples whom been entirely successful and brigand- I hava, tried to serve as Prince of age has been entirely wiped out. A Wales and as King, and whose future total of 20,000 rifles and 112 maching happiness and prosperity are the guns were captured from the bri- constant wish of my heart. I take gands.-Reuter.

FIRST TO VOLUNTARILY RENOUNCE HIS THRONE

TO EDWARD

Cannes, Dec. 10, Mrs. Ernest Simpson telephoned her solaces to King Edward over the telephone this afternoon, calling hlu "Boysy." She was apparently most moved at the tremendous Import of the abdication.

News of the abdication was tele- phoned from London to Mr. Rogers' villa, where Mrs. Simpson is slaying. A United Press correspondent asked Mr. Rogers whether Mrs Simpson Rogers answered: "I cannot answer would marry King Edward. Mr. that. I cannot commit myself, but everything would indicate that that

King Edward VIII, who ruled for nine months, is the first Aned $5 by Mr. Himsworth at the British monarch in history to voluntarily renounce the Throne. Only Kowloon Magistracy this morning on two other British rulers, James II and Richard II have abdicated is the idea."United Press. a summons for driving his car, on Five winners of Nobel Prizes re-November 24, at 30 m.ph. In the con- cach under compulsion. ceived their awards from the King trolled area in Nathan Road, between of Norway today.

Jordan Road and the

The Kings of Great Britain cannot, was reached, desplie James' protezis, Torway-to-day

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bra lawfully abdicate unless with the con- Theatre. Among the absent winners were Defendant was not In Court, but, ment. When James II, after throw that of Sulla the delator, 70 B.C.. Among the most memorable abdi- sent of the two Houses of Parlia- cations in history may be mentioned Dr. de Lamas, the Chilean Foreign in a letter to His Worship, ha ading the Great Seal Into the Thames that of the Emperor Diocletian, A.D. Minister, the winner of the Peace mitted the offence, saying he had fed to France in 1888, he did not 305, Napoleon Bonaparte, and exnounced of Mr. Albert Cross, marine Prize in 1036, and Her Ostetaky, been absent from his house the whole formally resign the Crown, and the Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. No engineer of Homuntin Street, "Ho- winner of the 1995 Prize, who is at morning, and was in a hurry to get question was discussed in Parliament less than three Pones (Benedict IX. muntin, and Miss Louise Mary Jorge, present in hospital in Berlin back in order to make certain if there whether he had forfeited the Throne Celesthe V and John XXIII) have of Boundary Street Kowloon Reuter's Bulletin Service,

had been any aici calls.

or abdicated. The latter decision abdicated:

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