CABLE NEWS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13739, 21 May 1910, Page 9

CABLE NEWS.

Queen Mary; the Queen of Norway , the Duko of Cornwall _ind\orJ* and Princess Mary (children of tho of *«™ bu !«- The Duchess of Connaught. The Dnchess of Albany, Princess P.trea of Con nought, i nnccs s Andrew of Greece (daughter cf Prince Louis of Battenburg). Priucasses Alexandra .and Maud of Fire, Princess Mane of bciileswij-, Holstein. The Duchess of Teck, Princess Lou.se of Battenhurs,. j-rii-ccs Albert and Henry (children of thc King). The fsaito with Suite. Mr Roosevelt. M. Pichon, Foreign Minister' oi France, and the Persian Renresentativo. Lord Strathcona (Canada), Sir Goorgo Reid (Australi;.), the Hon. \\. Hull-Jones (New Zealand). Royal Suites. Detachments of the Metropolitan City Police, Edinburgh Poiico, Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Police, Metropolitan Fire Brisado,. Closing Escort.

Thirty-five thousand dismounted and 1120 mounted troops will line the route in review order, with colours, trumpets and drums draped. As tho cortege is seen the infantry willY.lppe arms. When tbe bead of the procession arrives they will reverse arms and bow their heads.

Big Bon will bo tolled from 0.1 o till 11.

One hundred and seven officers and 2700 mop from the fleet, in representative detachments, will march in thc procos.ion. Tho remainder will assist in lining the route. Minute guns will ho lirt-d during tbo journey from Westminster to Paddington.

At Paddington ten nou-oomm:*.-sioned offipt-rs of tho Grenadiers, of which tho lato King was lieutenantcaptain, will carry tho casket to the train, which will consist of nine draped saloons upholstered with purple draperies and crepe. Tbo coffin will *-'°' pose in the first saloon upon a pnrplo catafalque guarded by Grenadiers, as at the lying-in-stato at Buckingham Palace. Evcrv bridge and station will he guarded. Windsor Station •will be guarded by bluejackets from the Excellent Gunner:.' School, 100 of whom will draw the -pin-carriage, 40 others acting as checkers.

King George and the other Royal personages will make a brief stay ;n the Royal waiting-room, nnd then follow the coffin through High street and Park street, wliich have been draped with purple aud black, ■ nnd will "he lined with Scots Guards and local Territorials. Thence the profession -'ill traverse the Long Walk through the Royal entrance to tljo grpat Quadrangle. Tho procession will be as before, without the army aud navy detachments, and with the addition of heralds pursuivants, and the Duke of Argylo. Governor of Windsor Castle. Minute gqns will be fired in the Long Walk and Windsor Park, and the bolls of the Round Tower and Curfew Tower will be tolled, as well as those of all tbo churches in the town and neighbourhood. The bands of the Horsp Guards Blue will play Chopin's and Beethoven's funeral marches. At St. George's Chapel nino tiers ,of seat's on either side have been covered with violet cloth. The sloping gangway frpm the nave to tho choir has been railed with standards and violet ropes. The military Knights of Windsor will bo ranged on either side of tho gangway, with members of thp Royal Household op the right of tho altar. Yepmei. of tho Gjiard will be op duty in the liaye with partisans reversed. Tho Gentlemen-at-Arms will bo in the.choir with halberds reversed. ! The Royal lgdies will occupy tho Royal Closet overlooking the altai-.' While the 1100 mourners and guests are assembling in Ihe <?l_oir and nave, Sir Walter Parratt at the organ will ..pipy Schubert's ♦'March Solcnelie.''