KING GEORGE'S STRENUOUS EXERTIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 32, 24 September 1914, Page 6

KING GEORGE'S STRENUOUS EXERTIONS.

In an interesting summary of events in London in the days; following the declaration of war, the correspondent of the Sydney Sun writes:—“From first to last the King never appeared until his signature had to be affixed to proclamations, or until his subjects begged a glimpse of. him on the balcony at,the Palace. Until the full history of those last overwrought days is written, the people as a whole will never know how much they owe to the sagacity, the steadiness, and the energies of their Sovereign. Frail though he may sometimes look in physique, King George is as tough as the toughest hickory. For four days on end he conic not have had more than an hour’s fitful sleep. His Ministers motored across from Downing-street at all hours of the day and night. Three mornings in succession the Prime Minister was closeted with the King at 3 a.m. Mr Asquith, in fact, could nofc keep up the pace, and some of his colleagues had to wait upon King George. The most perfect system of news-getting was provided at the Palace. Tapes from all the news agencies, telephones from the Foreign Office, telegra’ ’is from the Central Telegraph Offiff, -iil ended in the King’s study at t’-o Palace; there was no item of infra ■ tion, real or imaginary, official or m Trial, with which he was not inslant! acquainted ; his vigil was ceaselevs, I, : S energy exhaustless, In’s good humour endless; ho cheered his Ministers. and by his splendidly-compacted ni Ss-iccs to the army and navy ho r--rtmi .(1 ffin nation’s defenders, and

i" was at his instance, more than that of the Ministry, that Lord Kitchener was appointed Secretary of War, to the. gvoet delight of his follow-country-