KING OF SIAM DEAD

Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 5

KING OF SIAM DEAD

Press ■ Assn.-

Gun Accidentally Discharges BROTHER MAY BE SUCCESSOR

By Telegrapii

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Reeeived Monday, 10.50 a.m. BANGKOK, June 9. Anada Mahidol, the twenty-year old King of Siam, was found deac' in his Palace shortly before noor to-day. iiie Royal household spokesnlar said a ".gun .explosion" caused hir death. A servant fouiid the King deac in his bedroom at Baronpinar Palace, with a bullet wound in hi: head. ' » The Siamese Police Director General and the Director of Chula longkorn Hospital called, and afte: examining the body announcec that death was accidental. Palace officials said the King had been indisposed for .the past twc days. This morning he rose early and took medicine/ The House Assembly has beer called to an emergency sessioh ti appoint a successor, who is expected to be the -late King's -nineteen-year-old brother, Prince Phumi phon Aduldet. King Anada expected to leavBangkok next week before going tr Switzerland to resume his studies which were interrupted upon hi return to Siam last December. Tlu young King ascended the throiv. aleven years ago under a regenc: after the abdication of his unclc Kmg-Pra-jadhipok, who died on Ma> 30, 1941. King Anada was shy anc bespectacled, and was an aute cratic monarch, but was regard.ee with the same extreme veneratic-i which the 18,000,000 subjeets alway 'have accorded Sianrs ruler.