Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-11
king AND QUEEN
LEAVE FOR INDIA.
Royal Couple Will Attend Corona
ton at Dunbar. Festivities to
Continue Until January /.
pOMp AND MAGNIFICENCE.
The prevailing Plague In India VIII
Greet George nd Mary-6,GG7 Deaths
Last week From the ScOurge.


London, Nov. liking George and
Queen Mary sailed from Portsmouth
today for India to attend the corona
tion at Dunbar. The festivities in In
dia will continue until January and
will be OF unprecedented pomp and
magnifcence, this being the first visit
OF the emperor and empress TO that
country. The king and queen Will re-
turin to England the last of January.
Latest reports from Bombay tell
OF terrible plague conditions that Will
greet King George and Queen Mary
on their arrival in India for the Dur
bar.
The weekly reports account. for
6,667 deaths from the plague through
out India, 400 of which were in the
presidency of Bombay itself. Reports
from all the southern districts indi-
cate that the plague is increasing
rapidly.
While millions of pounds are being
spent on the Durbar fetes no means
have been found for stamping out the
ravages OF the plague.
The Durbar is the Indian name
for the court" at which George and
Mary will be crowned emperor and
empress of India as they were crown
ed king and queen Of Great Britain.
1t has not been customary for Eng
lish monarch actually to visit India
for this ceremony in the past but kng
George decided to go through it in
person for the sake of the impression
he hopes to make on the Indian mind.
The affair will be in the words OF
an officer of the guards who accom-
panied the royal pair as an escort "a
ially splash that the bttlly nisgers,
won't forget for the rest of their lives
but the start was comparatively un-
ostentatious. Accompanied by o de-
tachment of the household cavalry
their majesties simply went down by
train, from London to Southampton,
got aboard the "P. & o." liner "Ne-
dina and steamed out to sea.
On board with them. the king and
queen had a.full complement OF court
OF ofticials who will eat the royal food,
drink the royal wine and smoke the
royal cigars-the men at least will do
so-until the whole party gets back to
England again. Their majesties can
AFFORD to be hospitable, however, for
the money all comes out Of the privy
purse which is another way OF SAYING
that the British taxpayers furnish 1t.
A few of the more notables among
the royal flunkies are:
Lord Crewe, Indian Secretary;
Lord Stamfordham, the kings private
secretary; the Earl of Durham, lord
high steward; Karl Spencer, lord
chamberlain; the, Earl of SALISBURY,
the Queens chamberlain and the
Duchess Of Devonshire, mistress OF
the robes. Besides this the Medina
is crowded with, aids-de-camp, equer-
ries, lords; and ladies-in-waiting and
maids-of-honor without whom it was
deemed uniting that their majestles
should venture on so long a journey.
The medina" was transformed
some time ago into the most luXuri-
Gus of yachts for the voyage to Bonn
bay. 1t will make brief stops at Malta
and Alden and it is likely that King
Victor Emanuel of Italy viii contrlre
to meet and greet his brother king
somewhere in the Mediterranean. II
everything goes through according to
schedule Bombay will be reached De-
cember 2. Four days later the royal
party will go to Delhi where Viceroy
Lord Hastings, other high officials OF
the Indian administration and $50 ma
tive princes, sultans and raJahs VIII
receive it with unprecedented magnlh'
cence.
Accompanying the Medina on Its
voyage eastward are the cruisers De-
fense, Natal. Cochrane and Argyle
The admiralty did not consider these
four cruisers enough, however. Squad
rons of the Home Fleet will also be
cruising about the channel, the Bay Of
Biscay and the Spanish coast with
orders to see the royal craft and it.
escort safe to Gibraltar. There the
voyagers will be picked up by half the
Mediterranean fleet and accompanied
to Malta. From Malta the other hal
of the same feet will proceed with tn,
travellers to Fort Said. The cruiser
Suffolk and Bacchante will be waitin
there and a few more cruisers vii