Swedish Affairs
CAI!i:S'ET'S RESIGNATION. RUMORKD ABDICATION OF KING GUSTAV. !'y Cable--Press Association—Copyright Stockholm, February II). The Gazette states that the abdication of the King in favor of his son is imminent, owing to difficulties with the Ministers. Talk of abdication is repudiated in official circles. Certain divergencies in the King's speech and tiie Premier's speech to the peasants created a crisis. The Premier desired to remit the question of the length of infantry sorvtie to the electorates. The peasants demanded iin immediate solution, declaring that military service was bound up with the whole scheme of national defence. This, combined with the hostility of Radicals and Socialists, caused the Cabinet to resign.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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111Swedish Affairs Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 12 February 1914, Page 5
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