THE LATE KINO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 695, 21 December 1909, Page 7

THE LATE KINO.

A PROCESSION BY TORCH-LIGHT. lilr Teltffrntih l'r«t« AatoclsLlim -O» D jrlebt 1 (Rec. December 21, 1.20 a.m.) - 1 > Brussels, December 20. The body of King Leopold was taken by night from the Pavillion des Palmiors, Laeken, to the Palace in Brussels. Torrh-lights wero carried by a mounted regiment N of Guides. Princo Albert, tho successor to the throne, with the Generals of tho Army and tho Garde Civiquo, accompanied the hearso. . > On Sunday enormous crowds filed past the coffin as it lay in state in'the Palaco at Brussels. [Laekon, about two miles from Brussels, is the usual summer residence of the Belgian Eoyal Family, and the late King has spent large sums of money there In improvements.] O.UARREL FOR THE MONEY. EOYAL DAUGHTER AND MORGANATIC WIFE. (Eec December 21, L2O a.m-) 'Brussels, December 20. The newspapers state that the lawyers of Princess Louise, the King's eldest daughtor, have given notice to the principal banks that sho opposes payment of deposits held in tho names of King Leopold and Baroness Vaughan, tho late King's morganatic wife. The courts refused Princcse Louise's demand that teals be placed on tho rooms of Baroness Vaughan'a house.' ■ [A Press Association telegram received yesterday from Feilding states: In reply to the protest sent from Feilding against the flag being flown at half-mast on the post office for the death of King Leopold, Sir Joseph Ward replied that Hie rule within British territory, followed in accordance with arrangement with tho Imperial Government, is that flags on Government buildings shall be flown on the death of a crowned head and on tho day of burial.]