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Show LONDON HAILS EDWARD Vlil AS NEW KING Crowds Cheer New Monarch In Front Of Buckingham Bucking-ham Palace (Copyright 1936, by United Press) LONDON, Jan. 22 (U.R) Edward VIII was proclaimed to the people of his kingdom and of his empire today, "by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India." The boyish-appearing monarch watched from a window of St. James' Palace, long his home, while England was told, by a medievally-garbed officer of arms v ho read from a parchment scroll, that he was king. . Crowd Cheers Him He stepped out onto a balcony, pale and thoughtful, while a great crowd cheered him, went back into in-to the palace, and within a few minutes was at Buckingham Palace Pal-ace a few hundred yards away, briskly, in morning dress, talking business with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, while a procession proces-sion as of ancient times moved on through the city to proclaim him king. The England of history and of the story books, of the plantage-nets plantage-nets and tudors, was brought were massed about old St. James' Palace on the Mall. Soldiers formed cordons all around. OTTAWA, Jan. 22 U.F King Edward VIII, "Supreme Lord in and over the Dominion of Canada" was proclaimed king to his subjects sub-jects in Canada today in an official of-ficial proclamation in the Canada The proclamation was issued by the governor general, Lord Tweed-smuir, Tweed-smuir, personal representative of the new monarch in the Dominion. There was no ceremony. back for a day to a city that now has 8,000,000 inhabitants. In the four kingdoms of England, Eng-land, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, in British dominions, colonies, protectorates, the 41-year-old successor suc-cessor to his rather, George V, was proclaimed king and emperor as "our only lawful and rightful liege Lord Edward VIII." At 10 a. m. (5 a. m., E. S. T.), a battery of artillery in Hyde Park began booming out a 41-gun salute, one shot each minute to mark the 41 years of the king's life. A battery at the Tower of London, farther eastward in the ancient "city," began a salute of 62 guns, one shot for each year of the king's age plus the sovereign's salute his first of 21 guns. A few hundred yards from Hyde Park, the booming of the guns plainly audible, thousands |