The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-21
REMOTE POSTS
IN CANADA join
EMPIRES GRIEF
Governor General, Prime
Minister Express Formal
Sympathy of Dominion.
BIZ United Press

OTTAWA, Ont, Jan. 2l.-Lord
Tweedsmuir, Governor General Of
Canada, and Prime Minister w. L.
Mackenzie King expressed the
formal grief of Canada today over
the death of King George v, but
the emotion of bereaved people
came trickling in slowly and dra-
matically from places of which the
King probably never had heard.
The sorrow at loss of beloved
King was .assuaged by Joy at &C
ceSsion of a monarch regarded ale
most as a Dominion native.
Official word of King Georges
death that caused the Governor
General to cable King Edward VIII
that he was ''heart-broken" and the
Prime Minister to message an ex-
preston of 'the profound sympathy
of the people of Canada" reacted
in a simpler manner in Hudson's
Bay trading posts, ranch houses OF
Alberta and fishing ports of New
foundland.
Word Flashes Through Country
The King is dead"
The words went in all the direc.
tons of the compass. At rail and
wire heads they flashed onward
through the ether.
A handful of the townSpeople Of
Warways. end of the northwest rails
and gate to the barren lands, read
the message over the shoulder of a
station agent bent over mis- clicking
telegraph instrument and type
writer.
On the same wire the word
reached fur-clad farmers and trap
pers at Peace River and Lac La
Biche.
Police Spread News
Powerful broadcast stations of the
Northwest Mounted Police cracked
the message. At Cameron Bay, on
Great Bear Lake, where night and
day will be almost indistiuguishabl
for another two months. lonely po-
lice operator heard the flash and
threw off his headphones to shout
the news.
The Hudson's Bay Co. factor at
Aklavik, farthest north of outposts.
told Eskimo subjects of the dead
King that the great white chief was
no more but a new great chief mad
come.
Pride that the new King had been
an Alberta rancher in person-he
still owns beautiful ranch sc miles
southwest of Calgary-rose amid
sorrow in the western plains.
Roping Feats Recalled
"He can rope and ride like an
old-time COW hand" a cowboy re-
called.
Mackenzie King and Lord
Tweedsmuir followed their mes
sages to King Edward with other
cables expressing probably the
deepest emotion of the Canadian
people-sympathy for Queen Mary.
my wife and I are deeply dis
tressed at the tragedy which has
deprived the empire of its great and
! beloved sovereign and we beg most
respectfully to express to Your
Majesty our profound sorrow and
heartfelt sympathy in your great
loss" the Governor General said.
The Prime Minister'S message to
the new King was the official ex-
preston of Canada's sorrow.
Sympathy Is Extended
'T respectfully extend to Your
Majesty and to all members of the
royal family the expression of the
profound sympathy of the people
of Canada" it said. His late
Majesty was greatly beloved by his
subjects in Canada. No sovereign
had so close an association With
our country and toward him on the
part of all were feelings of personal
attachment and devotion. Canada
shares with the British common
wealth in mourning the loss of one
whose personality and public serv-
ice strengthened the bonds of their
friendship and unity and who as
man and King enjoyed universal
esteem and affection"