NEW KING HAILED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18920, 23 January 1936, Page 15

NEW KING HAILED

EMPIRE CITIES

ACCESSION PROCLAMATION CHEERS OF HUGE CROWDS GUNS ROAR SALUTES FIRST DAY OF REIGN (Klec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Jan. 23. 3 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 22. City by city, as the sun moved westward over the domain on whicli it never sets, the whole Empire stood to attention to hear the proclamation of Edward VIII as King. Troops presented arms and royal salutes thundered while the Royal Standard spread its glory overhead. Elags leapt to maintrncks after Ihing lnliniist suae King George hreathed his last.

Oriental splendor marked the ceremony at Delhi. Thirty-seven nationalities participated at Singapore. Malta grew festive in sunshine and cannon roared from Ihe King's Bastion at Gibraltar, while the harbor was bright with Hags. The new King closed a day of glorious significance by walking, unaccompanied except by the" Duke of Gloucester, along the dusky woodland paths to Sandringham Church, where he stood for 10 minutes in silence before his father's Hag-draped collin. When King) Edward was proclaimed at Dublin, constitutional authorities agreed there was no legal necessity for the Governor-General. Mr. James Buckley, (o renew the oath he took when he assumed office inasmuch as that oath me «ts the new situation,

King Edward to-day received the Prime Minister for the first tune since he became King and signed a number of State documents

It is expected that Tuesday will be proclaimed as a day of general mourning throughout the roi ntry. "King Geoige's dying words: 'How is the Empire?' will go down in history." says the Evening Standard. "They told him 'All is well. Peoples of kinds scattered over the face of the earth re-echo th.it reply. Let us do our part as he did. without stint, working for closer Empire unity."

The- Daily Mail says : "In the supreme hour of King George's life, the Empire was the first object in his mind. We mav be certain that King Edward, who is familiar with the peoples of the Dominions, similarly will have the welfare of the Empire constantly in mind,"