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LONDON OPENS
CORONATION FETE
$4,000 Troops to Aid Police
in Handling Crowds.
HONORS AWARDED CELEBRITIES

Roya Functions Will Crowd One Upon
Another, With the Big Event on
Thursday.
London, June 19.-Coronation week
was ushered in today by the announce
ment of the list of honors to be con-
ferred upon celebrities at home and
abroad.
The distribution to imperial and
royal visitors includes as many as four
blue ribbons.
Visitors from the country are pour.
ing into the city and are abroad In
great numbers. Strangers, it now ap-
pears, will comprise the usual crowds
in the streets and in the stands when
the king passes by to his coronation.
The coronation festivities we're fully
inaugurated with the return of the
king and queen to Buckingham pal
ace from Windsor, and the functions
connected with the central event OF
next Thursday will crowd one upon
another until July 1, when the court
will again leave London.
10000 Troops Under Arms.
Central London will virtually be un.
der seige for two days this week, with
10000 troops under arms, and the po
lice heavily reinforced in numbers
and aided by scores of physical de-
lenses for impeding the movement OF
the coronation crowds.
In consequence of the stringent reg.
ulations seat holders within and with
out Westminster Abbey will be in the
streets as early as o'clock for most
exhausting days operations, and the
crowds of sightseers are likely to be
much smaller than at the last corona
ton.
The abbey has been hung with val
liable tapestries and carpeted with the
richest carpets and rugs that exist In
the city 1t has been turned, in fact
into a vast theater for the presentation
the center, at the intersection of the
nave and transepts, spacious plat
form has been erected and covered
with wonderful Oriental carpets OF
royal blue lent by Lord Curzon-a
gift dating from his Indian viceroy
atty.
Dais and Tents For Royal Couple.
On this platform are the thrones
on dais, one with five steps up for
the king and the other with three
steps up for the queen. There they are
to receive the homage of their sub.
jects after the crowning Beside them
is the historic King Edward chair,
hoary with age, but untouched by the
hand of the decorator.
On either side of the dais in floor
levels are two tents. where the king
and queen can retire and change their
robes and can obtain needed refresh
ments during the three-hour ceremony
There is a very good likelihood that
they will need this refreshment. as the
nervous strain upon their majesties
will be very great.
Rehearsals for the abbey ceremony
have been in progress during the past
week and are reported to have been
conducted by efficient stage managers
The king and queen have not been
present. but they will receive private
instructions in Buckingham palace
from the earl marshal (the Duke OF
Norfolk) and other officials.
Lord Granard has ordered several
rehearsals of the royal carriages, with
positions and outriders.
Coronation Music Sung.
The coronation music has been pub.
licly rehearsed in the church house
before a large audience. Sir Fred.
erick Bridges homage anthem, IRE
joice in the Lord" Handels "Zadok
the Priest" and Sir Hubert Parry's
festival 'Te Deum" were among the
most impressive numbers sung by q
chorus of several hundred singers
from the abbey. cathedral and royal
chapel choirs.
A portion of the orchestra from the
kings band and from that of the
royal choral society was also in at.
tendance and there was a fairly com.
plete rendering of all the coronation
music.