The King's Message

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 89, 10 September 1914, Page 4

The King's Message

- TO ILIH WCOILES OVERSEAS. * \ WiOLD MONARCH. '} TRIBUTE TO THE DOMINIONS' '• LOYALTY. -, "oxe mind Ixl7 purpose.". ~i "*raWMENTAI7^ T y 0 P THE ' ' EMPIRE." r « Press Asociation. ■'*', ' At 8.30 thia^ite, I *?*'.^ I '*-' **«■ came into ho fu'"'' Pnme M!l >- «>at th, Govrno "* .«iate,l. adonted. PCaU,t -, Tl ' lß «ows ß wasLegislative Council also adj OUriK «.3.> His Excellency-arrived nnT * ~d^tateiih t »>g l>e lad received the following m« IfpStfi To the Governments and my self-governing .Dominions,During -the past . few weeks H,„ peoples of my whole Empire, at Hont and overseas, have moved with one mind and purpose to confront and overthrow « assault upon theeon! ***** «* «» BoJ^ Mto i'? !tons • conflict is »«» seeking. My voice has been east throughout on the side of peace. My Ministers earnestly strove to allnv th« of strife, and to appease the d ! fercnwß with which my Empire was not concerned Had I stood aside, when in ■ Stance of the pledges to which mykingdom was a party, tho soil of Belpum was violated and her cities laid desolate; when the, very life of the ! I'rencu nation was threatened with extinction; i shouij have sa,riflced my honor and given to destruction the liber% ties 0 f my fc lnpire and of mank[idi _ - rejoice that every part of tho Em-. pire is with mo in this decision The paramount regard for treaty faith and: I the pledged word of rulers and peoples I ib the common,heritage of Great Britain I f.ml of the Empire. My peoples 'in the wii-soverning Dominions have shown »«yond all doubt that tliev whole-heart-eoly endorse the brave decision which it. was necessary to take. Mv personal knowledge ot the loyalty and devotion \ in my oversea Dominions' had led me • to expect that they would cheerfully make the. great efforts and bear thVgreat sacrifices which 'have placed their - I at my disposal. It fills me with, gratitude, and I am proud to be able > i to show to the world that my peoplesoycff«a are as determined as the people o! the United Kingdom to prosecute a just cause to a successful end. [ "The Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia, and the Dominion of New Zealand have placed at mv .dispisal their naval forces,'which lave already rendered good service for ths {wnpire. Strong expeditionary forces arc being prepared in Canada, 'in Aus- ' tralia, and in New Zealand fov service at the front, and the Union of South ; Africa .has released all British troops and has undertaken important military responsibilities on its own account, the | discharge of which will be of the utmost. value to the Empire. Newfoundland 'has. | doubled tho number of its branch of the Royal Naval Reserve, and is sending a ; body of men to take nart in the opera- > , tions at the front. Frota the dominionand provincial governments of Canada larjre and welcome gifts, of supplies are on their way for (he use of both of raynaval and military forces and for the relief of the distressed in tho United' Kingdom, which must inevitably follow , in the wake of war.

' All parts of my oversea dominion have thus demonstrated in the moat unmistakable manner tlio fundamental unity of the Empire, amidst all its diversity of situation and circumstance.—* George, R. and'!."

At the conclusion of His Excellency's speech, Mr Massev addressed the peoplo briefly. He said lie was qnite sure that everyone would agree that the inessago >vas worthi of the oceas on, and that the sentinunt obtaining m Sow Zealand was common to the whole Empire Ho hoped and believed that the worst of the <rißis wis over, but thev would aee it thiough to the end, though the life and pro«pent\ of e\erv mal" subject was placed at the Tmpirt'R call Chens -were then gnen for the King and the fitmrnoi, and "Clod Save the King" was Ming, followed by further ih*m s.