His' Majesty's Thanks for the Expressions of Loy Ity from His Subjects and the Solicitude of Other Nations:
Public Thanksgiving Forecast London, Apr. 22
His Majesty the Kis has dressed the following message mig back on my long illness and recovery, my heart is full of thankfulness of a far deeper origin than a mere sense of relief. I have teen brought back from the danger and weariness of the past. months Ly the wonderful skill and devot of my doctors, surgeons and nuts Help. came from another soure:, ind strength, as, month after month, Tewened of the widespread loving solicitude with which the Queen and were surrounded.
Jam able to picture to myself the evowds of friends waiting and ching at my gates and think of still greater number of those who, throughout the remembering me with ood wishes. The ¥en this has been among the most experiences of my life, It was in encouragement beyond description to feel that my constant and earnest desire had been granted—a desire 10 gain the confidence asd aifeetion my peoples "My thoughts coreied me eve further. T cannot dwell on the generous sympathy shown me by knows friends in many—other countries without i new moving hope. I long to believe it possible that experiences such a* mine may appear no longer exceptional: en the national anxieties of all the people of the world shall be felt as a common source of human sym-mon claim on humas "Lam not yet able to bear the of public ceremony, but look forward, on some appointed day, te joining my people at Home ud' Overseas in thanking God, not merely for my own recovery but for the new evidences of growing kindness significant of the true nature: nations, meantime I hope this message may reach all those, even in the remotest corners of the worl, fron whom I have received words thy and good-will"
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.