The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-24
KING GEORGE " ].
 WILL VISIT INDIA . Imperial Dunbar Will Be
 Splendid Spectacle MOROCCAN EMBROGLIO England Quietly Preparing for Any. Emergency-Lord Halsbury Is S6 !, Years Old-Active Leaders
 in Labor Troubles
 
MOROCCAN EMBROGLIO

London, September 23.-(Speoial.) )-while
 the famine and distress In India, because
 of flood and famine. will probably cause
 some .curtailment of the imperial Durbar programme, 1t will none the less be one
 of the most splendid spectacles which has ever been seen even in India - Great numbers Of the very highest in
 England have made arrangements to go
 and the Alnericafr contingent will also be | unusually large and important. | A large number of royal standards are being specially got ready for the use of
 the king during his progress to the east
 monarch floating from the mast head of the Medina down the Red sea and across the Indian ocean will be unique and im- pressibe in the extreme. It will be lowered at sunset but one l of the busiest officers aboard will be the ono who is charged with the duty of ac-
 knowledging the salutes of naval and 1 merchant shipping of all nations when l they come within view of the royal cruiser. The royal standard will be hoist ed upon the railway trains which convey l their majesties across the Indian domln- l icns and will also float day by day over llle kluR cdIip OH lUe Delil pldlnS. New colors are to be presented to some of the
 most famous of the Indian regiments, and the homage to the flag will acquire a new meaning during these memorable weeks.
 While preparations for the Dunbar take up the time of royalty and society the
 men responsible for the conduct of the
 empire are giving all their attention to e nf ha Car quarrel over Morroceo. While 1t Is not deemed probable that war will result
 the situation is such that England is quietly preparing for eventualtles. Emperor Williams sincerely pacific dis position provides the strongest moral
 guarantee that the peace of nations will not be broken.
 No man better understands the wishes
 of the Germans or more Loyalty respects those wishes. His people do not want war, least of all war of aggression for the sake of colonial territory though they count upon the Wihelmstrasse to drive a first rate bargain on the west African coast.
 l. They are busy heaping up national
 have vetoed, says a Belgian journal of high authority. "certain ambitious pro- jeGts of Dr. von Aehrenthal" Next in importance is tke fact that during the last few days, despite the labor dislocation in England. the London
 and Paris governments have drawn closer
 together in resolute advocacy of the
 Ft@nch terms.
 No government at Westminster ever
 was more determined in it's, dealings with
 Berlin than is the Asquitll. Grey. Lloyd George cabine surprise. and it has been aoeefituated during the week in ways not
 so impressive beea confidential U M Del lcassas admirers hfuss assyell al
 in Paris, assert that Great Britain Is nov
 doing what she ought. lto have done al
 his request fiye years ago. The London
 radical slleets imply that her present at-
 ttude is due to eGerman pretensionstonly recently dreamed of.s'
 Lord Halsbury, who has been so much before the public sof2late as the leader
 of the Die liardt Peers has just at tained his eighty-sixth year, he having beer born in London on September q, lS25. The ex-Lord Chancellor has often been reminded of the prominent part which the figure plays in the chief
 events of his life.
 Besides occurring in the year of his birth. it may be pointed out that he took his R. A. degree at Oxford in 1852. proceeded NJ. A, was called to the bar In 1850, became A. C. in 1885. a Bencher of the Inner temper in the same year. chair l man of Carmarthenshire Quarter Sessions
 lS75-1SS5, solicitor general 1S75 Lord Chan
 cellor (first time) 1885.
 With the exceptions of Lord Eldon. who
 occ upied the Woolsack for a quarter of a