KING OF SLAM
» DESIRE TO ABDICATE
STRICT SECRECY OBSERVED
LONDON, Novemberl 1
In a. telephone conversation with Bangkok, L representative of tl» k Daily Mail learned that no word of the threat of the King of Siam to abdicate had been allowed to leak out there, the Siam newspapers being rigidly censored. Editors knew that their papers would have been suppressed if they had mentioned the rumours of the possibility of Fie King abdicating which have been circulating in Bangkok for about a month.
The people generally, it was learned, hop.e that the King will consent to remain on the throne. They respect him and want him to continue to rule. *
The manager of the Oriental Hotel at Bangkok said that everything is quiet in Siam, and there is nothing to suggest that dissolution is imminent. ’
An official at the Siamese Legation i n London says that in the I event of the King’s abdication the first person to be considered would be the 11-year-old 1 Prince Songkla, the King’s nephew, who at present is studying in Europe. . Having pointed out that the King told the Regent ten day s go of his intention to , abdicate-, the secretary to His Majesty said:—“lt is an ultimatum, because the Government can avoid it by dropping its measures and submitting them to a plebiscite or an election.”-
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1934, Page 6
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