FOURTH WEEK-END

Northern Advocate, 17 December 1928, Page 5

FOURTH WEEK-END

UNRELIEVED ANXIETY.

TRIBUTE TO STERLING WORTH.

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 15.

. The fourth week-end of the King's illness finds the situation still very anxious, as it was on the previous three week-ends, yet his Majesty's illness has undergone many changes and developments. The public is buoyed up with hope one day and reduced to grave anxiety on the following day. The bulletin is the surest index of the position seen outside the Palace. When a bad bulletin is issued the anxious crowd outside grows to thousands.

The general poisoning of the whole blood system, which was so alarming at the first stage, has slowly localised itself in a collection of noxious matter affecting the lung, for which the operation was performed. Such an operation, as already pointed out, if successful, is .often, followed by ]24 . hours' rapid and-; marked improyq-., ment, due to the relief experienced.’ “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 nf sycophancy with those who have the great pleasure of knowing the King personally. We know how sincerely ’devoted to duty, with constitutional impartiality, he is, and wc realise when -he is walking through the dark shadows how extraordinarily well his Majesty has always done his work, and how in doing it he knit us to him, not as the official or great dignified head of the State, but as one who belonged to the nation. Ho has tried all his life, in all his actions, to carry out his national responsibility and to advance national interests. There is not a member of the old Labour Cabinet who would not join me in prayer for his complete recovery. ''

“EXAMPLE TO ALL.”

ROMAN CATHOLIC PRAYERS,

(Australian Press Assn. —United Service.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, December .16.

The Roman Catholic churches in the Nottingham Diocese, iu view of the King’s illness, celebrated a solemn exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The Bishop circularised the clergy: “I beg you to exhort the people to pray that his Majesty may be restored to health and that God may preserve for many years the precious life of our justly beloved Sovereign. We cannot get on without King George the Fifth, who has been an example . to all and a most valuable head. At this time .of great crisis through which wo have been passing I personally feel that the great blow is not going to fall”

THOUGHT FOR OTHERS,

DISABLED SOLDIERS’ PARTY,

(Australian Press Association.) (Received 10 aim.) LONDON, December 16. It is announced officially from the Palace that the King does not wish his illness to in any way interfere with, the Christmas party to (500 disabled soldiers, for which the King lent the Riding School at /the Palace.