The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-11-09
India to Spend$5, ,0OO,.
600 During Royal
Visit
THE FIRST OE KIND
Never Before Has British
Monarch Made Journey
to This Colony
INDIA POVEETY-sTRICKEN
BUT WILL. RE LAVISH

is s.
INDIA POvEETY-sTRICI1EN
BUT WILL. RE LAVISH !
Simla ,India.--Thc Indian gov /.
ernment announces that it will :
spend $5.625.00O on the Durbar. .
The native rulers. whose reve- >
r. nues are collected from the pow d
!, erty-strickcn natives, will pro- :
badly spend another fifteen or ::
\" twenty millions. .
Drought. famine. plague and =
other diseases kill nearly one y
/ mlllion people yearly. accord
ing to reliable estimates. OH =
cial figures show that $685. =
600 died from plague alone dur .
ing the ten years ending 1909. a
Thousands die In districts nev- y
er visited by the official emu *
merators. Snak bites alone ac- s
count for $4,000 year. The =
hospitals treated 27,O16 900 pa s.
~ tients in 1909. .,
With q population OF nearly y
300,OOO,000 lndia's death rate ~
is about 40 per thousand. s
:; s u 81 !. # y
London. England. - King George
and Queen Mary left London this
morning lor Southampton. en- orute
for India where they will hold the
much doomed Coronation Durbar,
and despite thr misery from drought
famine and plague, prevailing
throughout the peninsula will enaea-
vor TO impress their Oriental sub
lects by lavish expenditure. and
what many openly call wanton ex-
ltraVagancc.
The cost of the trip will be enor-
nous. Parliament has voted $500
900 for expenses TO this end. and the
indian government announces that
1t is spending s5,625,0O on the fes-
tivities, but the total official bill Will
ne anything from twelve to twenty
millions
Tho cost of the coronation was
heayy enough. and with money bad
lv needed for social reforms iii Eng
land, and even more so in India,
vigorous protests have been raised
against such reckless waste, but the
present unrest in the NIoslem world
has convinced British statesmen that
some sort Of a splash lis necessary,
anG accordingly the Burbar with its
~ts, itN.the UtAtIl sllTsiAS-
cd to impress tho natives with the
power and majesty OF the british
Raj"
1ndia's First View OF The English
Monarch.
From the purely spectacular noint
Of view tho Dunbar will be the most
brilliant function that has taken
place in India in centuries. In the
ancient capital of tho AIogul emper.
ors King George will present him.
self to the people wearing the imper
ial robes and crowd, whilst the her
aids proclaim him Kaiser-i- Hind, or
Emperor of India 1t will be The
first visit of n British monarch to In
dia, or for that matter to any of his
overseas dominiOns after his corona
ton. and it will be the first time fo4
centuries that the crown jewels and
regaliaa have heen taken Out OF Eng
land.
The King and Queen left BncEing-
ham Palace in: state. amid the cheers
OF thousands OF spectators. the num-
her OF sightseers being augmented by
the crowds of suburban and country
visitors who came up to witness the
Lord Mayors Show. An ccort OF
household Cavalry accompanied them
to the station, and at Southampton.
a guard OF honor. awaited them.
There they were. received by the
mayor, and port naval and military
authorities who escorted them to the
magnificent new Peninsular and Ori-
entail liner Madina. which has been
scccially fitted up for the trip AS,
they stepped aboard the royal stan
dard was hoiste9 and the warshipsr
which will escort them to India. fred
saluics
Their Majesties arc accompanied
by n large number of Court officials.
and attendants.
After landing at Malta and Aden,
tho ROYAL party arrives at Bombay
December 9. They will be. received
by the Governor of the province and
the local notables, and Will stay there.
until the 9th, when they start for
Delhi, Bombay will be Illuminated
and gaily decorated and there. will
be several state professions during
their stay in the city,
State Entry Into Delhi.
( December 6 a move will be made
for Delhi, and the. King and Queen
will make their state entry in;o the
ancient Mognl capital, the following
day. They will be received by Vice
roy Lord Hardinge and the. heads OF
the Indian government, and about
$50 native rajahs, snltans, and
princes bearing all kinds of titles.
Tho day is TO be a public holiday.
and; q gorgeous procession in which,
hundreds Of elephants blazing with,
gold, silver and; taWeled !; trapptnss,i
wilt partieipate. The King and Queen.
will ride on IN monster elaphAnt,
with gem-studded gold hOwdah, and
gilded tusks, and the viceroy and and