The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-10-08
INDIAN DURBAR
OF INTEREST NOW
Iomes Into Lilnelight When
Canadian Annexation Bogie
Is Laid.
WILL Be MAGNIFICENT
King George and Consort to
Make Triumphal Entry Into
81 Buddha's Realms.
WILL BE MAGNIFICENT
DY PHILLIP EVERETT.

ID
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch)
London. October with the Ca
madam annexation boyle safely role
gated to the limbo of the forgotten
London's sole topic of interest is the
coming Indian Durbar. when King
George V. and his consort Will max,
triumphant entry into the realms OF
Budha and formally receive theiI
crowns and orders as the Emperor a"d
Empress of India. Every possible con-
ttinSency has been met by those in
the pageants will not take place until
well under way to receivc the tens of
thousands who will flock to India to
view this second coronation"
An interesting feature of tho Cal
cutta ceremony will be the massng on
either side of the Red Road of 5000
suburbs The children will be accJm-
modated in front of the stone balus-
trades on stands erected by the Bengal
Sided by the reception committee with
a small flag to be waved as their
designed by the Hon. Maharajah. Sir
Prodyot Kumar Tagore. and contains
the Star of India and other devices on
n light blue ground.
Mary Will appear in the same :obes
and crown that she Wore at the coro-
nation, hut 10 the gems IN the crown
has been added the famous Koh-i-noor
out of compliment of the Indian en-
pire.
head of an Indian Emperor 5000 years
nGo. IT passed from one imperial line
10 another until IL became tho treas
uro of the Punjah: and then fell into
the hands of the English who sent IL
as trophy of conquest to Queen VIC
soria, thus giving point to the Indian
saying that WHO holds the Koh-i-noor
5,n,1e Jpdta
nsIn India the superstition obtains that
AZ the DIAMOND Is worn by man are
disaster will befall him. while if tho
wearer be a woman fortune Will shine
upon her for the rest of her days.
So strong is the belief in this legend
that when it was ANNOUNCES that inc
the gem set in his crown, many lead
Ing Indians petitioned His Majesty 10
give up the idea.
instead of appearing in the Kings
crown mounted in Queen Alex
andres diadem. 1t l has now no o6 been
MARY, and before the close of the year
this historic gem Will be seen once
more in the land from whence II cane came
ny Queen Mary at Delhi is large
diamond lotus. which is now being
mounted. This will be worn at n.
necklace which was one of India
presents TO Her Majesty, when. as
Princess Of wales, she maze nef mem
nrabie visit 10 the East. The necklace !,
is formed of graduated pearls al
differing in color. The central stone
SIS an immense grey pearl OF ma tSh,ess
are perfect specimens of mauve. bronze,
pink. black and yellow pearl
Following Her Majesty's example.
,,,dsp of the ladies who will attend the
Delhi pageant have CHOSEN Tor tnelr
dresses gold cloth and t'nsel- woven
broeades Lotus oiHe, e eniora toIored
nv the Queen and By those who will
accompany her.
Just now, when hint of war has
been In the air ever since the Franco
German negotiations over the Moro
can affair, Efslish navai ana I'm m'h thpf
Portsmouth is anything but a saie
naval base ~. during this summer
the isle of Wight has been overru9
by German tourists who have STUDIED
the surrounding country with tru"
Teutonic thoroughness. and, althouSh
only one of them got into ironnle
one doubts that Germany knows all
there IS TO know about the Portsmouth
fortiications.
few days ago. that modern battle
feet could knock the fortihcations
silly without running any great risk
except from local submarines. The
guns Of the defense are not sufficient
~ powerful to disable battleships. and
for practical purposes. might just as
we'll be absent as present. But, he
added. long as any British fleet
exists. no enemy would be sufficiently
foolish TO attempt the enterprise;
while, even failing the British fleet
sea attack would not be worth the
risk from submarines.
He says that II AN attack were ever
20 be made the enemy would undoubt-
edly use the Isle of Wight as naval
base.
1T assuredly is true" ne said. that
today few thousand foreign SOL
dlers. with a few long range guns. es-
tablished on the island. could make
things remarkably unpleasant for
Portsmouth Dockyard. From the hills
at Ryde and Sea View to Portsmouth
Dockyard IS not much over 10000
target OF the haystack type. a single
big North German Lloyd liner could
carry the necessary force and with
6 few friends ashore ready TO cut
q the telegraph and telephone wires at
&the suitable moment this force could
Nstabl!sh itself and give endless trou-
Pse and do endless mischief before it
co&Sd he dealt with
81 VIII not venture an opinion as
TO how far the isle of Wight may
represent the Heel of Achilles of
Portsmouth, but assurediv the foreign
biologists, botantsts and entomolo-
Eist appear TO consider that IL doc.
for nowhere in England arc they So
plentiful as here. The natives I be-
charms OF their island which make
81 SO attractive to the visitors They
may be right; and It may be hut a
freak OF nature that their fauna and
fora only abound around what may
be Described as "strategical spots"