The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-10-29
BY HERBERT TEMPLE.


London. Oct. 2a.-It is now settled
that the coronation of King George is
TO take place on Wednesday, June 81,
next year. and already the arrange
ments are well in hand
From now until next July both the
Lord Chamberlain and the Earl Mar
shafs departments. in fact. every Of
fetal OF the royal household. will be
working AT high pressure. The word
has gone forth that nothing must be
wanting to make the event worthy Of
the empire and of the historic great
ness of the occasion.
All the gorgeous trappings of state.
the royal and other regalia which
lends to the browning of an English
king SO much stately splendor. are
now being examined and made ready
Already the coming event is casting
its glories before, and in many unex-
expected quarters there is now a bus
tie of activity which will not cease
until after next June.
Already scores of rooms have been
engaged at the big hotels, and hun
dreds OF passengers have been booked
on the great steamship routes from all
parts of the world. The rush from
America, which is growing in volume
every succeeding year, manager Of
one of the leading shipping lines says.
will exceed anything yet seen This
information was corroborated at one
of the big Anglo-American hotels and
by the manager of one of the chief
tourist agencies, who remarked: Lon
don will next year be the capital. not
of the British empire only, but of the
world From the universal inquiries
We are receiving l am convinced that
there will be such crowd as even
London has never seen before
The coronation will bring to this
country considerable number of
royal personages from the courts of
Europe, though, of course, no reigning
monarch ever attends coronation.
Great changes are impending in the
British army, and military circles are
wondering how many high army Of
ficers are going to lose their official
heads for placing the English army in
a ridiculous light during the recent
military manoeuvres. which were ad-
mittedly the worse ever witnessed in
any European country. Though the
English newspapers had nothing but
praise for officers and men, the for
eign critics who were present were
far less lenient and in German papers
teh statement has just appeared that
many times the confusion was SO COM
plete that it was really amusing, and
certainly what happened would have
been amusing to the Germany army,
for the British troops were firing at
themselves at point-blank range and
no one seemed to know where they
were.
The severest critics of the British
army was the well-known German
colonel, Gaedke, whose report in a
Berlin paper must have made many
English officers furious, and military
men here are now trying to prove that
though his pen is very pointed, he
has never achieved anything brilliant
with his sword.
Grave complaints are heard every
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horses during the manoeuvres. Sew
eral of the cavalry regiments taking
part were greatly hampered through
this cause, and had to take to the field
only a shadow of their real selves. II
this sort of thing is going to happen
in weeks mimic warfare, people
here are asking what will take place
when the real thing" comes along?
ON one who is brought into intimate
contact with English mounted forces
today, can fail to notice the weedy and
altogether inferior quality of the
horses.
Before the South African war the
English cavalry was as well mounted
as any in Europe, but this is no longer
the case, and the present craze for
economy at al costs is having an ef-
feet upon it that is little short of dis
astrous.
The constitution of the United
States may be the model of the new
constitution for the British empire