"GENTLEMEN, 'THE KING.'"

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16209, 11 May 1918, Page 3

"GENTLEMEN, 'THE KING.'"

Tho Marquis of Lincolnshire. LordLieutenant of Buckinghamshire, addressed, «t High Wycombe, a unique gathering of welcome to over L'OO Bucks active service men discharged from the Army and Navy.

"As a representative of the King," Lord Lincolnshire said, ''I want you to considor what those^four words 'The King of England' really mean. When as loyal men after dinner you drink the King's health, you are not only drinking the health.of the man who so worthily wears the Crown of King Alfred, and who, in his own person, and through other men, represents the stability of this glorious Empire. (Cheers). You are drinking to law- and order and liberty and justice. v Yon are drinking to the judges on the Bench, and to the Parliaments all over the world that ar© elected by and responsible to the pe°pie. (Cheers.) You are drinking to the great Dative Princes and huge populations of India, to the Confederation. of Australia, to the Dominions or to the Union of South Africa, and to every great pioneer who has left his own country and sailed to plant the British flag in the most distant parts of the globe. Do remember when you drink the health of the great Constitutional Monarch of this country that you are drinking to the prosperity and. the luck of all those gallant men who have gone out and bled for tbe Empire* (Cheers.)

Prince Albert, who is prevented by ill-health front continuing his ° av ? duties, is now attache'! to a naval air station. He has made good progress in his ne*.v work, and has already made a successful flight.