KING OF RUMANIA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 11

KING OF RUMANIA.

PROLONGED SUFFERINGS. QUESTION OF SUCCESSION. A. and N.Z. LONDON, April 6. Sensational reports continue to* be received from Bucharest about the death agony of King Ferdinand of Rumania. 7C is stated that all hope of saving His Majesty's life was abandoned on Sunday. The King's body has wasted to a skeleton, and he does not weigh more than 801b. His heart is steadily growing weaker, and his death is believed to be a question of days only, though one doctor says he may linger for a month. The wildest rumours are in circulation as to Prince Carol's movements. One of these is to /the effect that a number of Rumanian financiers and speculators are waiting with an aeroplane ready to rush him to Bucharest the moment King Ferdinand's death is announced. Nevertheless, Carol is going about unconcernedly in Paris, but he is being kept very fully informed as to the King's condition. A despatch from Vienna says the hews- ? paper Neue Freie Presse states that King Ferdinand has received extreme unction and that his death is hourly expected. The favourable official bulletins which are being issued are, it says, designed to quieten the populace, as the question of the succession to the Throne is causing nervousness. The National Peasants' Party is urging that the King should summon a Crown Council to make the decree of 1926, which excluded Prince Carol from the right to ascend the Throne, retrospective. t , EXPULSION CANCELLED. JOURNALIST FROM LONDON. (Received April 7, 6.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. LONDON. April 7. The Bucharest correspondent of the Daily Express, Mr. Gedge, who was yesterday ordered to leave that city, cables that the order for his expulsion has been cancelled.