DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY.
Laitest Rsliable Details' hi Sydney, March 10. Tlie German Embassy has received a message from Berlin officially announcing the death of" the Emperor Wilhelm. Minute guns were fired at noon, and a proclamation expressing regret at the death of his Majesty has been gazetted.
London, March 9. The first report of the Emperor's death originated in two evening papers published in Berlin. The. report reached London at 6 o'clock on Thursday evening, and the streets were crowded with people anxious to buy extras containing the news of his Majesty's death, and also the slips issued with the biography of the deceased Emperpr. It is stated that the German Goyernmei|t have ordered n criminal prosecution against the two evening papers in Berijn wljo first announced "that the Emperor was fed. In Berlin the report was generally credited, notwithstanding that at the Embassies placards were posted denying that the death had ensued. Immediately on the notice being issued to close the Theatres and houses and the draping of the principal streets in Bprljn,' the residents became "aware that tUe Emperor Wilhelm had passed away. AH'the evening the streets were thronged with people, expressing regret at the death, and the loss which the nation had suffered. The garrison troops were kept in readiness to take part iu the ceremony of administering the oath to Prince William, who has been selected to act temporarily as Regent. However, before the Prince was sworn in, the Emperor rallied, and the Empress, who had been lying ill for some time past, was by her express desire, carried into the room, and laid beside her husband on the bed. The Emperor, though very weak, was able tp join in tlje prayer that was offered, and afterwards conversed with the Empress and family, and took farewell of them. He died at 8.30 a,m. The Grown Prince will take up his residence at Charlottenburg, three. miles west of Berlii],
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2845, 12 March 1888, Page 2
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325DEATH OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2845, 12 March 1888, Page 2
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