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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 44, 21 January 1936, Page 7

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STRENGTH GRADUALLY DIMINISHES WORLD-WIDE CONCERN Received January 21, 12.4 T p.m. LONDON, Jan. 20. HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE Y PASSED AWAY AT HIS RESIDENCE AT SANDRINGHAM AT 11 O’CLOCK THIS EVENING, FAILING TO WITHSTAND HIS GRAVE ILLNESS FROM BRONCHIAL CATARRH, ACCOMPANIED BY HEART WEAKNESS. LIFE MOVING PEACEFULLY AWAY. A BULLETIN ISSUED AT 9.30 n.M. STATED:—“THE KING’S LIFE IS MOVING PEACEFULLY TOWARDS ITS CLOSE.” THIS WAS SIGNED BY 7 SIR FREDERICK WILLIAMS, SIR STANLEY HEWETT, AND LORD DAWSON. A BULLETIN ISSUED AT 5.30 p.m. HAD STATED :—“THE KING’S CONDITION SHOWS DIMINISHING STRENGTH.” THE BULLETIN, ALSU SIGNED BY SIR FREDERICK WILLIAMS, SIR STANLEY HEWETT, AND LORD DAWSON, COMING AT THE END OF AN ANXIOUS DAY 7 , CREATED CONSIDERABLE ALARM, AS IT WAS THE MOST SERIOUS. SINCE JANUARY 7 IT, INDICATING THAT THE DOCTORS FEARED HIS MAJESTY’S RESERVE OF STRENGTH WAS BEING TAXED. Received January 21, 10.5 a.in. LONDON, Jan. 20. EARLY 7 TO-DAY 7 THE DOCTORS EXPRESSED THE OPINION THAT THE KING’S STATIC CONDITION MIGHT PERSIST FOR SEVERAL DAYS, BUT IN THE EVENING AN EXAMINATION SHOWED A SLOW WEAKENING, WHICH ONE IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH COURT CIRCLES DESCRIBED AS ‘‘A GENERAL SLOYVING UP OF THE BODILY MACHINE.” HIS MAJESTY 7 SINCE FRIDAY 7 HAD BEEN FIGHTING HARD AGAINST THE ENCROACHING WEAKNESS, BUT THE BULLETIN INDICATED THAT HE WAS ’LOSING GROUND. THE KING WAS NOT SUFFERING PAIN. THE STAR LEARNED THAT MEDICAL EXPERTS REGARDED TO-NIGHT AS THE CRITICAL TIME. IF THE KING RALLIED HE HAD A GOOD CHANCE OF RECOVERY. THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. It had been learned unofficially at 1 o’clock in the morning that His Majesty had had some.sleep, and that his condition was unchanged. At 2.30 a.m. it was learnt that the Kinghad had several hours of restful sleep. His condition remained unchanged. A bulletin at 10.15 stated: “The King had a more restful night. There is no substantial change in his condition.” The Daily Telegraph’s correspondent reported that His Majesty had held his own during- the past 36 hours.