RELIEF AND THANKFULNESS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 5

RELIEF AND THANKFULNESS.

VERY SEARCHING INQUIRIES. ACT OF AN UNBALANCED MIND. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. Congrateulations to the King and messages of thankfulness that no harm came to him as a result of the day’s incident at Hyde Park Corner yesterday, included messages from all the Dominion Governments and many foreign Governments. At the London sessions to-day the chairman (Sir Percival Clarke) expressed thankfulness that the incident on Constitution Hill was not more serious. “ft is right,” he said, “that we should express our great satisfaction that the incident turned out to be harmless.”

Very searchiing inquiries are being made by the authorities into the incident, which created alarm for the safety of the King. 'Scotland Yard has issued an appeal for evidence from persons who witnessed the occurrence, about which there as yet is little exact information. The result of the inquiries so far confirm both the belief that the arrested man is not connected with any organisation and the general impression that his behaviour was the result of the effect of some fancied grievance on an unbalanced, mind. Large crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace to-day, and expressed in repeated cheering their relief thac the unhappy ‘liculent had passed without harm to the King.—British Official Wireless LOVE AND LOYALTY. SOVEREIGN’S TRUST IN PEOPPLE LONDON, July 17. The audience at several London theatres joined in the singing of the National Anthem before the performance. British and Continental newspapers unite in expressions of profound relief at the King’s safety. “The Times” says: “For generations the practice of sovereigns of England has been to move among the people, not surrounded by apparatus for protection, but trusting to the! love and loyalty of their subjects. The King yesterday was riding at the head of armed forces, not encircled by their bayonets. His trust lias been abundantly justified and though incidents such as yesterday’s have occurred several times in the last century, they have not been allowed to diminish it.”