WORLD-TRIBUTES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 814, 11 May 1910, Page 5

WORLD-TRIBUTES.

POLITICAL STRIFE STILLED IN IRELAND. KAISER COMING TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE. London, May 9. Countless tributes to tho memory of the late .King were made at the memorial services held by all denominations in Great Britain. At the opening of the London Stock Exchange, tho members sang tkc National Anthem. There has been a general recovery on tho Stock Exchange. Consols are quoted at -CSI 10s. ■ Tho National' Council of the Free Churches, the Institute of Journalists, and many other bodies havo coudoled villi Queen Alexandra and family. . Sinco the death of Queen Victoria, no event lias occasioned such deep, gonuine sorrow in Edinburgh. King Edward's association with Edinburgh dated from his youth. Ireland One in Sorrow. Most loyal messages have been received from Dublin and other Irish cities. Tho Dublin correspondent of "Tho Times" says:— "Ireland is mourning over tho unexpected news, which -has-, established an almost unprecedented bond of sympathy between all parties and creodi Tho Nationalists in Ireland respected Queen Victoria, the Unionists in Ireland loved her. Unionist and Nationalist -alike loved King Edward for his qualities of King and man. "There is no thought, of politics in Ireland, because of regard for King Edward, pone in the chorus of sympathy and sorrow in which to-day, from Lord Aburriwm and the Xatimi'list .Wd Mayor

of Dublin, to the humblest peasants in Connemara, the whole people are united." • United' States Senate. The United States Senate adjourned as h mark of respect, -after passing a resolution • deeply deploring King Edward's death and sympathy in the bereavement of his people. Reference was made to his loss to tho whole world, and his wise kindly influence for peace and good government. The Danish nation is preparing a golden wreath to be placed on King Edward's coffin. (Rec. May 10, 10.25 p.m.) Every houso in Tokio is hung With the crossed flags of Japan and Britain, the staffs being draped in black. Buenos Ayres'messages state that ten days' national mourning has been ordered in Argentina. The. battleships of the German High Sea Fleet fired a Baluto of twenty-one guns. ' India and Egypt, Advices from Bombay stato that the wise, benignant sympathy imbuing King Edward's last Proclamation touched a responsivo chord throughout India, but that now a feeling of pessimism is showing itself nt tho untimely loss of an influence that would havo been priceless at this juncture. Europeans and natives in Egypt de : plore tho -King's death and eulogise his career. Princo Mohammed, tho heir. to the Egyptian Throne, will represent the Khedive at funeral. German Sympathy—Tho Kaiser. King George has invited tho Kaiser, to Buckingham Palace, and the Kaiser has accepted tho invitation.' . Prince Henry (brother of tho Kaiser, and Commander-in-Chief of tho German High: Sea Fleet),. who recently visited England, i will accompany the Kaiser. Russia's Friendship—lsvolsky's Eulogium. ' Tho Russian Duma sent a warm telegram. to i the Speaker of tho House of Commons, hoping that the bonds, of friendship between tho two countries would continue to develop and strengthen. Tho Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs (M. Isvolsk.v, who • was received by tho King during his recent stay in the South of France) addressed the Duma eulogising King Edward's contribution to the restoration of the trustful , and friendly relations between Britain and Russia, which at present constitute ono of tho firm foundations of tho peace of the 'world; Sydney, May 10. News of King Edward's death arrived in the-midst of the jubileo celebrations of tho Deutscher Verein.- The president, in' moving- an expression of deep sorrow at tho death, said tho whole German community would receive the sad news with deep regret. There were 110 more loyal subjects of King Edward than the Germans in Australia,

The motion was carried in silence, the gathering standing. Tho concert was 'postponed.