KING FUAD DEAD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 101, 30 April 1936, Page 7

KING FUAD DEAD

CONFIDENT TO END GREAT RESISTANCE SHOWN I POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF DEATH (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] CAIRO. April 23. 1 King Fuad I died this morning. The tuneral will take place on April 30. He rallied thi* morning, and received a number of palace officials. Doctors stated tnat his resistance Was super’itrnan. The King’s Australian rJentLt, Mr. "Bret Day, u tpt solitary vigil in the "bed chant her during the last four nights. The King, full of confidence in kim. refused other nursing as>i>tancc. Fuad told the doctor.- this morning: *’ Jam not going to d:e. '* He read the newspapers and discussed the general situation, confident that he would overcome his illness by sheer will-power. Picturesque crowds o* all classes, learning of his gallant fight, assembled in The square facing the palace and shouted “God preserve the King.’’ King Fuad for the last four days had been unable to eat nr drink and suffered acute jain from a gangrenous throat. The British United Press says that King Fuad died while reading a tele • gram from I’rinee Farouk, which fell ' from his hands. One of the King’s last acts was to sign the new agree ment dealing with the .Suez Lanai, i Prince Farouk could not believe rhe i news of the King’s death until he tele } phoned his mother. He hopes to be al- . lowed to return to England after th--•appointment of regents. He was pre | paring to enter the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich. Great political importance is attached to the death owing to the part the Throne played in the com p icated party struggles. REGRET IN ENGLAND OFFICIAL CONDOLENCES. TRIBUTES To LATE KING [ British Official Wireleia. i RUGBY, April 2>. | The news of the death of King Fuad. ' which occurred at I p.m. local time, t* day, at the age of 68 years, was re- ' ceived in London with great regret. An assistant of the diplomatic corps, j Mr. M. J. B. Monk, called at the ; Egyptian Legation this afternoon and also at Henry House, Kingston on Thames, where the Heir Apparent, Prince Farouk, is residing, to express the condolences of the Foreign Secretary. The Prince also received a ■ private message of sympathy from King Edward. The British Government has tele -graphed a message :o the Egyptian 1 Govern ment. Newspapers print long accounts of The late King’s reign and pay tributes • to his work for the educational and • scientific development of his countrv. , According to Pre,. i- formation, plans for the return of Prince Farouk 1 Vw Hgypt have not yet been made. NEW KING PROCLAIMED. CAIRO, Aprii 2>. I Crown I’rinee Farouk has been pro claimed King. He will leave London ■ on Thursday and will arrive at Alexandria on Mar 5. King 1 uad na-, born n 1363, the - joungest son of the Khedive Ismail.' daring whos< short reign of 15 years ; Egypt was reduce 1 from comfortable \ s-dveney to utter bankruptcy and mis- ■ cry. But f-»r the first five years of j Prince Fuad’s life he lived brilliant!*’ and easily. From the windows of his nursery jn the I’aiace of Giza, near c airo. he saw his father, seated beside Ihe Empress Eugenie of the French. Tide gaily past as he escorted her to ate “the pyramids along the marvellous four-mile road which In the incredible time of four short weeks he had built on a 20ft. high dyke planned sheer across the Nile mud flat*.. That was in 1869, and the Empress had come to I open the buez Canal. But that great pageant na» the ia.-t episode of the great days of Ismail. Jwon his debts began to smother hi:;, and in 1876 French and British finanrial commissioner* arrived to take charge on behalf of the European landholders. For two rears thev I strove vain.y to bring order into the I country s finances. But when a crisi- | arose in which the commissioners all ' Imt lost their lives, Ismail bid to abdicate, and his e-dest son, Sewlik, sue- j reeded him as Khedive; while his youngest. Fuad, a - onipanie.l him into axiie in Italy. Return to Egypt. An exi>d family op-.-iallv H d’srredieed and mipelerish.-.J royal family »» a pa •■■•••. and the jOuug prince’* adolescence was not 1 prum.sir g. He „a s educated simply at Naples and later graduated through the Military ■ u lege vf Turin into the Italian t.orp, of Vliilery; but. until 1 when his father died’, he lived the unsatisfying existence or a Prince away from home, apparent A* without a future. Ismail’s passing. however, altered the current of h-Aife. Permission ua.- given him to return to Egypt, and a post was found for him in Cairo in the Egyptian Court of hi- nephew, the young Abbas Hilmi. who had meanwhile succeeded to the Khedivate of Egypt. For the nest 15 year- the Prince—one of many Princes uf the Khedivial House—remained in Cairo almost unnoticed. On the outbreak of the Great War, however, the Khedive Abbas Hilmi threw in his lot with Turkey and Germany and was deposed. He was succeeded by his untie, Hussein, another brother of Prince Fuad, and the ■British Government declared its protectorate over Egypt, which simultaneously became a Sultanate. Sultan Hussein died in 1917, and as his successor, the choice fell on Prince Fuad. ATvcr the War. At last, in 1918, came the collapse of the Central Powers, and also the sudden rise of a sturdy Egyptian nationalism wh.ch demanded the summarv abolition of the British protectorate. Early in 1910 thi- agitation came to a head, and for three terrible weeks Egypt was plunged in revolution. The