ATTACKS ON KING GEORGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1041, 2 February 1911, Page 5

ATTACKS ON KING GEORGE.

A CHARGE OF SEDITION. BAIL, £20,000. MALTA MARRIAGE REGISTERSBy Teleeraph-Prcss Association-Copvrlcht. London, January 31. Edward Mylius, who was arrested last month on a charge of sedition and privately" examined, by Mr. Justice Evans, was held to bail in the sum of ,£20,000. Ho failed to fiud this amount. The public, trial will be held this week. Signor Azoppardi, tho Crown Advocate of Haifa, brought into Court tho marriage registers of the period of the King's Service in tho Mediterranean Fleet, and other documents bearing on Mylius's libellous statement that • the King married a British admiral's daughter. Mylins demands the King's presence at his trial. [Mylius is charged , with selling a paper called the "Liberator," published in Paris, containing attacks-on the King.] ALLEGED MARRIAGE AT MALTA. AUTHORITATIVE DENIALS.. In 1892 the Duke 'of Clarence died, and King George thereupon became heir-ap-parent to tlio Throne. Tho Duke of Cl<!u' : ence was betrothed to Princess May of Teck, and after his death a marriage was arranged between Princess.May and King Georgo (then Duke of York), which was duly solemnised on July G, 1893. It has from timo to time been alleged that when King Georgo was a young sailor at Malta, with no hope of over succeeding to.the Throne,. he married the daughter of a commoner. That marriage was legal enough then, but tho death of his brother immediately made it void, and the prince had to separate from his first wife, who was provided for generously. An Absolute Fiction, . The Bishop of Durhanv speaking last year at tho reuniou of past and present students of St. Hilda's College for Schoolmistresses at Durham, said it had been slanderously stated that King George had been secretly married to a lady not of ttoyal rank, and that his marriage with Queen Mary was therefore not legal. Ho wished to say witli absolute confidence, from absolute knowledge, that this slander was an absolute liction. .

The Archbishop of York, preaching at the church parade of the Yorkshire Hussars Yeomanry, saidt "We may be thankful that King George is worthy of our personal loyalty, which you have to show, not only by wearing his uniform, but by speaking up for the King when' yon have the chance, and when you hear those backbiters who are not ashamed to sny anything about their King. : It belongs to your loyalty to stand up and defend him. You may thank God that your King Georgo is an example to every mau; of the kind and dutiful life which , everyone of his citizens ought to live."

"Root and Branch an Untruth." in tho course of an address to a coe-> grcgation of Friendly Society members, tho Dean of Norwich said: "We have now upon tho Throne a King who, to my porsonal knowledge, is a inaif of intense selfsacrifice and high character. Against him one has heard brought two accusations, brought, as , I think, by that part of society which is no society at all, but these thint!3 percolate, down, and it is just as well-that when speaking before a mass of people ono should give the lie. to those two accusations. In the first place,- tho King is sometimes accused cl insobriety. You may take it from mo on undoubted authority that that is a libel. As far as his close friends have noticed -him ho has never been intemperntpnthrpugjipnt, his life,, .but,, on tho ctjnWfiry, "is' more 1 a man' v.-ho; oven • from the point of view of health, has to lie abstemious, and who-has no desire to bo. anything else. I want you, generous-' hearted men, when you hear some light, stupid talk with regard to this irreverence to our King, to say with absolute confidence'that there is not :v moro eober, temperate, quiet-living man in this, country than King George. The other, accusa-, tion is still more unworthy. It is that prior to his marriago he had what is called a secret or moreanatic marriatre, with children by it. That is absolutely root and branch an untruth. Ho has now undertaken tho greatest responsibilities which Any man can undertake, and I ask for him 'justice, fair dealing, confidence, loyalty, and love in his task."