The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-12
A ROYAL REVIEW.
ENGLISH TROOPS INSPECTED BY
THE GERMAN EMPEROR.
The Imperial Visitor Fayorably
Impressed by Great Britain's
Citizen Soldiery.
France and Russia Highly Irritated by the
Courtesies Paid by England to Her
Royal Guest
A Revival of the Movement 10 Compel the
British to Evacuate Egypt-The Ger
man Socialists Divided Into Fac
tions on the National Defence
Question = The Cologne
Gazette on America
and Russia-Notes.

LONDON, July LINE emperor ana
empress and their suites, at 8 O'Clock this
afternoon. left London by rail for VIM
bleton station. From that point the route
to the parade ground was lavishly deco
rated. Early in the morning the British
volunteer regiments and the regular regi-
ments detailed to take part in the parade
began to arrive. With the early regiments
crowds of people from London and the
country focked towards Wimbledon COM
mon, where the meetings of the National
Rifle association were formerly held-the
old Creedmore of England-and began to
take up favorable positions to see the
troops. The regiments first to arrive did
so in a smart, soldierlike manner. 1t was
evident at a glance that their command
ing officers had done their utmost to turn
out the citizen soidiery ''in as clean-cut
and as businesslike manner as possible"
Many Of the volunteer regiments, in order
to show the emperor that they were not
such 'rear-rankers.' as some people sup
posed, preferred to march in full heavy
marching order all the way to Wimbledon
and back again to their regimental dis
trict, some of these regiments thus falling
in for good twenty to twenty-five miles
tramp.
= Detachments Of life guards, horse
guards, dragons, lancers, husSar and
artillery arrived early in the day, and
these picked cavalrymen were soon fol-
lowed by the regular infantry of the line.
After them came the Grenadier guards,
the Coldstream guards and the Scots
guards. If these really fine troops were
we'll received by the crowd which had by
this time gathered on Wimbledon's sward,
it was as nothing to the applause with
which the gallant Highland regiments
England's bonnie Scots-marched to the
front with the bagpipes playing the tunes
the Highlanders love so well.
Pyy 0.20 all the rapr1lapS unro bariDcr fror,
COCO to 1000 men, were in the positions
assigned to them, though the volunteers
were still pouring in a living stream up
common. Every body admired and openly
commented upon thelexcellent order and
admirable Steadiness with which the
volunteers marched upon the ground, even
veteran army officers admitting sthat ''the
tradesmen" did very well. The entire
body of troops was under the supreme
command of his royal highness the duke
of Cambridge, commander-in-chief,,O of the
British army. The volunteers numbered
about 16, 900 men.
At o'clock the artillery thundered out
a salute, and the German imperial stand
ard was run up the flagstaff at the review
ing stand in place of the British standard,
and almost Immediately afterwards the
emperor of Germany, accompanied by the
prince of Wales and a staff in brilliant
uniforms, and followed by an escort of
life guards, dashed up to the saluting
point. As the emperor saluted he was re-
ceived by the duke of Cambridge and
staff, while a royal salute was fired by the
artillery, The emperor was mounted upon
magnificent black charger and dressed
in the uniform of a field marshal
When the sound of the last gun of the
salute had died away among the distant
hills, the emperor, followed by his staff.
led by the duke Of Cambridge, proceeded
to inspect the British regiments of volun-
teers. After the inspection, which seemed
TO impress the emperor with a favorable
back to the saluting point As soon as
stand, with the duke of Cambridge near
him and with their stats behind them,
the march commenced and lasted an hour
and half. Not only the emperor but the
German military critics were of the
opinion that the march past was per
formed in splendid style.
As the troops marched past the review
the combined bands of the guards
played the German anthem. The horse
artillery, by battries, came first. This
corps, being next to the guards probably
the finest branch of the British military
service, certainly deserves the highest
praise. After the entire body of troops
had marched past, the lines were reformed.
the soldiers presented arms, another royal
salute was fired, and the review was at an
end. Immediately after the termination Of
the military ceremonies the emperor
started for the Crystal palace, where ne in
spected the fire brigades After a display
Of fire works the imperial party returned
to buckingham palace.