EVENING BULLETIN

Evening Star, Issue 20052, 18 December 1928, Page 4

EVENING BULLETIN

PROGRESS NOT CONTINUED (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, December 17. (Received December 18, at noon.) The following bulletin was issued from Buckingham Palace this evening The King has this afternoon been somewhat restless. The progress recently noted has not been continued during the last few hours. (Signed) Stanley Hewett, Hugh Rigby, and Dawson. EBB AND FLOW NO MARKED IMPROVEMENT. LONDON, December 17. (Received December 18, at 1.15 p.ra.) The latest bulletin justifies the view held at the Palace that any optimism must still he guarded and restrained. His'Majesty, despite the natural sleep, was so distressed to-day that he has tonight lost some of the ground gained in the previous thirty-six hours. Naturally it is hoped that the check to progress is only a part of the ebb and flow which must continue for some time, and that the set-back may he temporary. Yet the fact must he faced that nothing in the nature of steady progress has been achieved in the long and exhausting illness. Although three consecutive bulletins prior to to-night’s noted improvement, this has not, it was emphasised to-night, been in any way marked. Furthermore, there have been periods in between in which his condition fluctuated.—Australian Press Association.

At last night’s meeting of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce it was resolved that a minute be drafted expressing its sincere and loyal sympathy witli the King in his illness, and praying he bo speedily restored to health, and -that a copy of tho minute be forwarded to tho Governor-General.