§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)Mr. Speaker, I regret to have to inform the House that Her Majesty's Government have received information of the death this morning, at a quarter past 11, of His Majesty the German Emperor. It will be my duty, on Monday, to move an Address to the Crown and to the Empress of Germany, expressing the deep sorrow and concern of this House at the calamity which has overtaken the Royal Family and the people of Germany.
§ SIR WILLIAM HARCOURT (Derby)Mr. Speaker, in the absence of my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Lothian, I have only to say how deeply all sections of this House associate themselves with the sentiments which the right hon. Gentleman has expressed, and with the grief that is felt at an event which is not only an affliction to this country, in consequence of the connection of the late Emperor of Germany with the Royal Family of England, but which, I am sure, is felt to be an irreparable loss by all the nations of the civilized world.