PROFOUND REGRET

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18918, 21 January 1936, Page 13

PROFOUND REGRET

PEOPLES OF AMERICA

anxiety over illness

DESIRE FOR RECOVERY

PRAYERS OF CONTINENT

(Reed. dan. 21, 3 p.m.) NFAV YORK, dan, 21

Profoundly affected by King Georges illness the people, of the continent-, bom Hudson Bay to the Rio Grande, gave evidence of earnest hope tor his. recovery. Tim Secretary of Stale, .It • Cordell Hull, yesterday instructed the [■idled Stales Km bossy at London to convey President- Roosevelt s earnest wishes for the monarch's return to wellbeing, while prayers were said in churches and schools throughout ( amnia and the United States. The Prime Minister of Canada. Mr. Mackenzie Kmg. said there was not a, church nor home in which the prayers of Hie people had not- been offered lor the King and in which the anxieties of the Queen and Ollier members of the Royal family ueie not, also being remembered. Cue of Hie most striking evidences ol American sympathy was contained in a resolution offered in the Virginia Stale Legislature by Hie Speaker, in which In- staled thai “the daughter is not yet separated so far from her mother as not to learn, with the deepest concern and anxiety, of the King’s illness, and to pray earnestly lor the restoration ct Iris health.

bishop of Canterbury, Dr UosiTio Lang, gave tlie lasi blessing to the King. The Daily Kxprcss is on I lie si reefs wit n pictures of the/ King and 11 1 e Prince uf Wales with the caption : J'Tlm King is dead 1 Long live the King.

•tnd over the pilotngraph of the Prince :,f Wales the caption: “Kdward the Ki'.ildli."