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Better View Of Coronation Procession
ROUTE CHANGE TO
PLEASE THOUSANDS
Stands For 85,000
Changes in the route of the Coronation procession on May 12, announced recently, will have the effect of ensuring a better view for thousands of spectators,
Under the original scheme, on the outward and return journey" from Buckingham Palace the pro- cession would have passed on the same sides of the Victoria Memorial and Parliament-square.
Now the routes are so planned that people grouped on all four sides of the Memortal and the square will have a close view of their Majesties either on the out- ward or the return journeys.
When the King and Queen leave Buckingham Palace the procession will proceed via:
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Waterloo Bridge Going- Going-
Anybody who wants a last peep at: Waterloo Bridge without the bather, of putting on a diving suit had better hurry up
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memorial; several blacks to Aus- tralla for the Parliament Buildings At
Canberra; alabs of granite, T
to several Rhodesia.
towns in Southern
It will be early summer before the last demolition gang labourer straightens his back for the last 'time and sayı-"That's Waterloo Bridge that was." sut before long all that is still visible to the Em-sidence made itself felt, bankment razer will have disap- peared.
Six thousand tons of concrete have been blasted away. It had
when the nrst anxiety about sub- been sunk round the plers in 1882
Seventy-six thousand tons of
Waterloo Bridge have been taken away. The work of removing 100 last three piers-numbers 2 and 3 is the river, and number 8 on the south foreshore is about to begin. Demolition above the water level is comparatively, simple. The last few months of labour will be out of sight in the great under-water coffer dam.
tons
thousand Fifty-two
of masonry have gone, most of it by barges along the Thames to Isle- worth, and thence to a dumping site north of Hounslow, where it
West and North sides of the Vic- Will He until the London County
toria Memorial.
The Mall,
Admiralty Arch,
South side of Trafalgar-square. Whitehall,
East and South side of Parlia
ment-square, and
Broad Sanctuary, to the West Entrance of the Abbey.
RETURN ROUTE
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The return route will be by way
of
Broad Sanctuary,
ment-square,
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Council have decided whether or not it can be put to any use.
Some of it has been shipped to
different parts of the Empire-300 cubic feet to New Zealand for a
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Five thousand tons or clay and THURSDAY and FRIDAY 8,000 tons of brickwork, useless for The 18th & 19th FER. 1937 dumped from the barges. The AT E. M. NAVAL YARD, HONG any modern purpose, have been clay had to be removed to free the embedded timber plies which formed the foundations of each pler.
One thousand tons or timber- the flooring of the foundation rafts, the square beams below them, and the several groups of 200 to 300 piles which bore the 10,000-ton weight of each pier- have been dragged up.
When the last pile of beech or oak or elm has been pulled from its clay bed, the only scraps of Reninle's bridge left to London will be the few pieces of stone and blocks of 200-years-old timber pre- served by the Institution of Civil
Engineers.
CHINA · QUESTIONS IN PHYSICAL TRAINING
HEAD APPOINTED
COMMONS
London, Feb. 8. Speaking in the House of Com- mona to-day. Mr. A. C. Morcing.
West and North sides of Parila-Conservative, drew the attention of the Government to the report that the Chinese authories intended to compel all insurance companies to isque policies in the Chinese langu-
Bridge-street,
Victoria. Embankment,
Northumberland-avenue,
South side of Trafalgar-square,
Cockspur-street,
Pall Mall,
St James's-street,
Piccadilly.
West side of Piccadilly-circus,
Regent-street.
Oxford-circus, Oxford-street,
Through the Marble Arch and
central gate opposite,
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East Carriage Road in Hyde
Park, Hyde Park Corner,
age.
He requested the Ambassador should be instructed to draw the attention of the Chinese Govern ment to this movement, owing to the hindrance such a law would be
to business.
Lord Cranborne replied that he had no information on this subject but that he was requesting the
Ambassador to report.
·Mr. Peter MacDonald asked ques-
London, Feb. 8. Lord Aberdare is to be Chair- National Advisory man of the Council of thirty members in con- nection with the physical train-
ng "scheme.
The duties of the Council will be partly scientiae and advisory to local committees. Reuter.
Lord Aberdare great success as a sportsman, spe- has achieved
cialising in tennis, rackets and cricket. He was Amateur Rackets champion in 1923 and 1931, nine times doubles champion in Eng- land and twice champion in the USA. He was also singles cham- pion of Canada and open cham-
plon of the British Isles,
tions on the same subject. Lord plan of the U.S.A. in 1920 and of In tennis, he was amateur cham- Cranborne said he was unaware of the Britsh Isles in 1932, thirteen
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Through central arch of the any recent developments with re- times representative of Great Bri
gard to the revision of the Chinese tain in the Bathurst Cup, and five Joint Manoeuvres In insurance laws, and repeated that | times winner of the Coupe de
screen, by Constitution Hill, and the
North, East and South sides of
the Victoria Memorial, to Buckingham Palace.
On Wednesday, May 19, when the King and Queen drive to the City of London Guildhall for lunch, they will travel by the direct route along the Strand, Fleet-street, Bt. Paul's Churchyard, and Cheapelde. The return journey will be by way of Queen Victoria-street and the Embankment.
It is proposed that street decora- tions shall remain in place until midnight on Thursday, May 21 unless damaged by the weather. Floodlighting of selected buildings in London will be carried out on the evening of Wednesday, May 12, and, on subsequent evenings up to Whit Monday, May 17, inclusive.
The following statement has been issued regarding stands and reserv. ed accommodation on the route of the Coronation preession!
"The Coronation Committee has had under consideration the ar rangements to be made as to the stands and other reserved accom- modation to be provided on pro- perty under the control of the Office of Works.
PROTECTING PUBLIC'S RIGHT
The Committee's first considera- tion has been to refrain as far as possible from encroaching wron ground to which the general pub lie can claim a right of access without payment, and from when a reasonable view of the Corona- tion procession can be obtained by person's standing at ground level.
Bubject to this consideration, starda to the fullest possible 'capacity from the seats of which
he was asking the Ambassador to report- Reuter.
THAMES STILL RISING
Paris,
IF YOUTH
BUT KNEW No Limit To Ignorance
Mediterranean
Visita To Gibraltar
Units of the Home Fleet are to leave their Home Parts on January 18 for the Spring cruise. Gibraltar and certain ports in the Eastern London, Feb. 8. Is there any limit to the ignor Atlantic and Western Mediter- The Thames is still rising. ance of recent events displayed rantan will be visited, states a Fears are entertained regarding 27 modern youth? Mr St John Home correspondent the strength of the flood bank at Ervine recently tried an experi- It is intended to carry out large- Old Windsor, which was built by ment in general knowledge on a scale manoeuvres by the combined- voluntary subscription a hundred of 21. She knew that Ellen Home and Mediterranean Fleets in years ago. Should the bank give Terry and Henry Irving were con the nightbourhood of Gibraltar way, the whole of the old town nected with the stage, and that during the first week in March, af
Joseph Chamberlian had someter which the combined Fleets will thing to do, with politics, but she assemble at Gibraltar. The Home nad no knowledge of Henry Labou- and Mediterranean Fleets will chere, Adelina Patti, Sims Reeves, leave Gibraltár and Malta respec- Lord Salisbury, or Mrs Humphrey tively for these exercises about Ward
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would be flooded.
At Windsor itself, where the riverside promenade is covered with nearly four feet of water and the river is a mile wide, the au- thorities are taking precautions. and walls of sandbags have been
where in the upper reaches. the erected at danger points. Eise- increased flooding has mainly af- fected open country. British Wireless.
Evacuations From Spain
Landon, Feb. 8.
"NEVER HEARD OF EM
NORMAL ROUTINE
ties she
Among a host of other notabili-
The holding of the Spring cruise Dan Leno, Beerbobm Tree, Kit this year marks & return to the
had never heard of and
combined Fleet manoeuvres chener, Roberts, French, Luden normal Fleet routine. Last year dori, Joffre, and Asquith. She there was no Spring crulan proper. nad a vague notion that Foch was owing to the critical situation in some way connected with the the Easteri: Mediterranean, follow war, but thought he was probably ing upon the Italo-Ethiopian dis- an officer of the British Ariny!
pute.
Certain ships of the Home Fleet, did, however, relieve ships of the Mediterranean Fleet of quard duties at Gibraltar during the first few months of last year. and, wif there were no large.. seals combined Flect maboruvres,
U.S. FLOODS
Washington, Feb. 8. The flood waters continue
Up to the end of last month, nearly 17,000 men, women and children of more than 50 different nationalities have been evacuated from ports in all parts of Spain and the Balearic and Canary I fall slowly in Louisville and Cairo, Illinois, as far south as fifty inlles above Memphis,
landa-
british Wirelcia.
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Army engineers are confident. that the levee system will retain. the Mississippi flood waters all the way to the sea.
& view will be obtainable without nity of the Palace of Westminster, obstruction by trees, &c., are be-The seats on the stands, for Meanwhile, President Roosevelt ing or will be erected
which a charge will be made, and has acceded to a reggest from East side of the East Carriage- the free standing space will be al- Mid-Western drive in Hyde Park and in Hamil located in
Congresalien accordance with create an Ohio River Authority ton-place-gardens, on both sides scheme which, after providing after the pattern of the Ternes of Constitution-hill, in the Queen number for visitors from the see Valley Administration, Victoria Memorial-gardens, and on Dominions, India and the Colonies; order to supervise food control both sides of the Mall, on sites will allow of an allotment of seats and restore industries in the de within the precincts of the Palace and standing room to reprezenta- vastated arcas... of Westminster and in Farlla- lives of as many facets of the na- Router. ment-square," and in the gardentional life as possible, eg, oficial, ground attached to Whitehall-gar- municipal, professional, labour, dens along the Embankment, to dec
provide accommodation for ap- The actual selection of these proximately 85,000 persons in all national and other services and "In addition, standing space for activities is having careful' const- approximately 30,000 persons will deration.
METAL STRIKE IN FRANCE
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Paris, Pub,
Pri
be reserved in Constitution-No applications for tickets from and at the Queen Victoria Memo- Individuals can be considered and employers in the rial and on the pavements found elther. by the Coronation Commit-metalurgical industry aprara te Parliament-square and in the vic-tee or by the Office of Works." no means settled. A meitatges
opportunity was taken for exercise in the LORD Mediterran while sert in units of the Home Meet and or other foreign stations were in company with the Mediter raneán Flect in thgehe waters.
It is understood that during the coming Spring cruise of the Home
opportunity will be taken to relieve some of the Mediterranean coast of Spain by ships of the ships frog their duties round the Home Fleet
been appointed by M. Blur." The Comployees had demanded 15 per facresse of wages from "Jan-: dary retrogresively. The arsy Eltrator decreed 3.5 per cent in- creano, for tamilies, an increase of 1.5 per cent and retrogressively from Jaguar 18. The meeting of the Union only accepted the verdict ́
The conflict between amping with reservation, saying that the
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