LATE NEWS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 71, 17 December 1928, Page 6

LATE NEWS

THE KING’S ILLNESS o - THE LATEST BULLETIN A RESTLESS NIGHT BUT CONDITION GENERALLY IMPROVED (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) (Rec. December 17, 12.51 a.m.) London. December 16. The bulletin issued at 11 o’clock is us follows: — In spite of a restless night His Majesty’s general condition has slightly improved. LABOUR LEADER’S TRIBUTE TO HIS MAJESTY (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 16, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 15. “I would like to say how all have been moved by the King’s illness.” said Mr. Ramsay MacDonald at a dinner tonight. “Sympathy is not a question of sycophancy witli those who have the great pleasure of knowing the King personally. We know how sincerely devoted to duty with constitutional impartiality he is, and we realise when he is walking through dark shadows how extraordinarily well His Majesty has always done bis work and how in doing it he knit' us to him not as an official or a great dignified bead of State, but as one who belongs to the nation. He has tried all his life in all his actions to carry out. the national responsibility and to advance the national interests. There is not a member of the old Labour Cabinet who would not join me in prayer for his complete recovery.” GENE TUNNEY OFFERS PRAYERS FOR KING’S RECOVERY IMPRESSIVE SCENE AT NAVAL BARRACKS (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 16, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 15. There was an impressive scene at the Marine Barracks, Portsmouth, when the boxer, Gene Tunney, who is a captain in the United States Naval Reserve, before presenting a football cup from American naval officers and men, said: “I would like to ask the privilege to bow my head in prayer for the speedy recovery of your King.’ The whole assemblage followed suit for two minutes. ' lit response to a message from the Boy Scouts’ Association on behalf of the movement throughout the Empire, the Queen replied with thanks and assurance that the King appreciated the good wishes. DANGER HEART MAY FAIL HIS MAJESTY’S GREETING TO PRINCE OF WALES (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. December 16, 11.5 p.m.) London, December 15. The usually well-informed writer in “The News of the World” says the danger is that the heart may fail. Sir Stanley Hewett had a most anxious and trying time, made more so by suggestions from the learned and the unlearned. The Queen, on the other hand, never fussed the doctors. It is a complete misapprehension that the King has been worried by numerous medical examinations by numerous doctors. This is not the case where the symptoms are well understood, and as customary have been discussed by the doctors in conference. The X-Ray photographs of the King are some of the best ever taken of a patient when lying in bed. The King has been delirious off and on. He recognised the Prince of Wales, greeting him with the remark: “Well, David, how many lions did you shoot?” SOUTH AFRICAN VETERANS’ SYMPATHY At the annual meeting of the South African Veterans’ Association on Saturday night, the following motion was carried: —“That we, the members of the South African Veterans’ Association desire to express our loyal and sincere sympathy with His Majesty the King in his illness and hope that His Majesty may speedily be restored to complete health and strength.”