Mr. Harding's Sudden End: Shock to the Peoples of the World: A Great Journalist and a Great Statesman London, Aug. 3.
President Harding died' yesterday evening.—Reuter.
San Francisco, Aug. 2.
A bulletin issued by the physicians in attendance on President Harding says: The President died instantaneously without warning while conversing with members of his family at 7.30 this evening. Death was due to a stroke of apoplexy. During the day the patient had been free from discomfort and there was every justification for anticipating prompt recovery.""
The end was so sudden that the members and officials of the Presidential Party could not be called in time. The President died after passing the most satisfactory day since the beginning of his illness.
The first indication of the relapse occurred when Mrs. Harding rushed to: the door of the room and called for the doctors. A
Mrs. Harding and two nurses were in the room at the time. The former was reading to her husband when entirely without warning a slight. shudder passed through the President's frame. He then collapsed. All present immediately recognized that the end had come.
Within a few minutes all the members of the President's official patty had been summoned. Mr. Hoover was the first to arrive.
Vice-President Calvin Coolidge, who automatically becomes President, was notified immediately.—Reuter.
A previous Reuter telegram, dated San Francisco, August 2, stated President Harding's physicians state that the President had several hours of restful sleep last night and except for the marked exhaustion of acute illness said that he was feeling easier. While his recovery will take some time, the physicians are more confident than they have been up to the present with regard to the outcome of his illness. The President's lungs have definitely improved. His temperature is 98.2, pulse 100 and respiration 32 to 40.—Reuter, to-morrow is a token of sorrow and respect.
Governor-General Wood has cabled to Mrs. Harding-and Mr. Weeks his and the communities' deep sense of loss. The Governor-General stated that the death of the President is a grave national calamity and brings with it a feeling of deep sorrow to every American. It deprives the nation in this critical period of the world's affairs of a leadership which had shown itself devoted to peace and better understanding among nations and to Governor-General Wood personally it brings a sense, of personal loss and sorrow,—Reuter.
Tokio, Aug. 3 All circles were greatly shocked this afternoon at the announcement of the death of President Harding after the very encouraging bulletins of his progress received earlier in the day.—Reuter.
London, Aug. 3.
The British Court goes into mourning for a week for President Harding.
According to the succession arranged by the Constitution, the Vice-President automatically L2- comes president. and Mr. Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts, will assume office. Mr. Coolidge is the third to succeed to the Presidency because of the natural death of his superior and the sixth because of three—assassinations—Tyler went in in place of Harrison, Fillmore for Taylor, Johnson for Lincoln, Arthur for Garfield and Rovsevelt for McKinley.
San Francisco, Aug. 3.
President Harding's physicians state that he died from apoplexy ov rupture of a blood-vessel at the axis of the brain near the respiratory centre. His sister died in a similar way. The President had long suffered from high blood pressure and there was evidence of arterial sclerosis. At the moment of his death his wife was reading to him a magazine article about himself. His last words were, "That is good. Read some more." Mrs. "Harding bore up stoically and declared: "I am not going to break down."
World-wide Regret and
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