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...Gazette has been busy with the tribulations of King Rama VI, enlightened monarch of Siam. Some two months ago it announced that he had decided to "demote" Queen Lakshmi because she had not borne him an heir (TIME, Oct. 26). One month ago it chronicled the "promotion" of handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to the rank of Queen, adding that a royal birth, the first in Siam for 32 years, was shortly expected (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week it deplored amid bitter lamentations a swift two-edged blow of fate...
Rama VI, King of Siam, having issued a decree "demoting" his childless Queen (TIME, Oct. 26), blazoned another edict in the Siamese Official Gazette last week, and "promoted" handsome Chao Chom Suvadena to that rank...
...Chao Chom Suvadena last year visited the Malay States, Singapore and Penang in the royal entourage. The official proclamation of her "promotion" contained a reference to the fact that she is soon expected to give birth to an heir...
...Business. 1) Mosul: the Turks, ever more than a match for European statesmen, muddled the whole matter (TIME, Sept. 14 and ante) by refusing to accept the League's adjudication of the Mosul border, and demanding that a plebiscite be taken, and the whole matter reopened. 2) China: Chao Hsin-Chu, Chinese Charge d'Affaires at London, begged the League to deliver his country from "the yoke of extra-territoriality." 3) Autria: a protest was entered against the Austrian budget, as set by the League, it being claimed that State employes would be paid less than starvation wages...
Died. Prince Chao Fa Asdang, 34, heir presumptive to the Siamese throne; in Bangkok...