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the coronation ceremony. mere

the coronation ceremony. There
fore, no date can yet be indicated for
carrying out the coronation.
Official announcements of the kings
serious illness were made to public
bodies as speedily as possible.
To Carry Out Country Celebrations,
During the afternoon the earl mar
shall, the duke of Norfolk, issued the
following notice:
1.-THE earl marshal has received the king 8
| commands to express his majesty's deem
| sorrow that owing to his serious illness the
coronation ceremony must be postponed
The celebrations In London will in conse-
Quence be likewise postponed, but It u the
kings earnest hope that the celebrations in
the country shall be held as already ar
ranged"
The king also expressed to the lord
mayor his desire that his maieAty's
dinner to the poor of London be not
postponed
Special Am bas sa dors to He Sent Ham .
Nothing has yet been decided re-
garding the movements of the foreign
guests. The first intimation which
Whitelaw Reid, the special ambassa-
dor of the United States to the
coronation had that. anything was
wrong was contained in communion
ton canceling the state banquet
which was to be held at Buckingham
palace Tuesday night. but no mention
was then made of the postpenement
OF the great ceremonies Of the week.
1t Is understood, however, that the
special ambassadors and royal
guests will return to their respective
countries as soon as more definite
news is received of the result of the
operation.
Washington. June "a cablegran
from Ambassador Choate, at London,
to the state department., received
Tuesday morning, says that the
coronation has been postponed in
definitely on account Of the indisposi-
~tton of the king. The message was
taken to the president by Acting Sec
rotary of State Hill. and the former
laid it before the cabinet
The president Just before leaving
the white house for the railroad sta
ton sent the following cablegram to
King Edward:
His Majesty, Edward VII. London
ask your majesty to accept my sincere as
sura noes, of sympathy and wishes for speedy
convalescence.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
Explanation of Kings Illness.
Now York, June 25.-Dr. Cyrus Ed
SON explains the kings Illness and
the operation as follows:
'Perityphrtis Is Inflammation. including
the formation of an abscess, of the tissues
around the veriform appendix and, hence
perityphlitis is hard to distinguish at once
from appendicitis. Usually an operation Is
necessary to ascertain whether the appen-
dix or the surrounding tissue is diseased.
In the kings case there is probably an
abscess at the head of the large intestine
where the appendix begins, and the opera
ton to-day was an immediate necessity be-
cause the abscess had to be got at and
emptied of Its contents. or pus. OF course
cannot say what further than the abscess
wes discovered by the surgeons-that is,
to what extent the Inflammation had af-
fected that part of the kings body. I'm
dor ordinary circumstances he ought to
recover In three or four weeks, but after
recovery 1t would perhaps be four weeks
more before he would be able to perform
his part in the coronation ceremony.
THE kings trouble is In his right eide,
low down"