AGAINST THE KING
CONSPIRACY REPORTED IN SIAM. CHARGES AGAINST RETIRED OFFICERS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. BANGKOK, January 30. An official broadcast today revealed the discovery of a plot aimed at the restoration of ex-King Prajadhipok, uncle of King Ananda, by a number of army officers who were retired without gratuity or pensions. One suspect committed suicide while he was under escort to Bangkok. A retired officer was shot dead when evading arrest. The country is quiet.
King Prajadhipok abdicated early in 1935. He was in poor health and his eyesight was failing, and he decided, it was stated, to spend the rest of his life at Hangmoor, the house he owned in Surrey, which would place him within easy reach of his physicians. Previously he had accepted a bloodless revolution, changing over from despotism to the British form of constitutional democratic government. The new monarch. King Ananda, was then aged nine, and at school in Switzerland. He returned to Siam a few months ago.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 February 1939, Page 5
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