The Archive · 1938

Royal Message of Sympathy

London, June 3.

The following message from King George has been sent to the Officer Administering the Government of Jamaica:

"I have learnt with deepest regret of the death in Jamaica of Sir Edward Denham, Captain-General and Governor in Chief.

"In him the Empire has lost a public servant of long experience and distinguished ability. His death a grave loss to the Colony and will I know, bring sorrow to the hearts of all my people in Jamaica—Wireless through Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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