PAGEANT IN LONDON

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 128, 4 June 1929, Page 9

PAGEANT IN LONDON

TBOOPING THE COLOUR

British Official .Wireless. (Received 4th juke, -11 a.m.)

" ;: "'■■:,; BTJGBT, 3rd June. At the celebration of the Kihg>* 64th birthday,-the" pells •were rung in. Windsor and a salnta of 21 guns was filed in front of the Castle. At tha naval ports battleships,, .battle. cruisers^ and eruiaera : infull commission wera dressed and-ships:in reserve commission also hoisted masthead flags. Boyal salutes were-fired at nooil by all saint* ing ships.:.': : : ; '•■•'-' ' "

In London thevannual birthday cere* mony of the .trooping of the colours took place; on'tho Horse Guards Parade. As Usual, this; bfillfent picture o£ ceremonial was.': watched' by a huga crowd. ' In thio absence of the Kuqg, hia uncle, the Duke of Connaught, took the salute. ' He- was' - accompanied by the Prince of Wales, ther Dukejof York, and Viscount LasceUesi; the! King's son-in-law. The ■ military.attaches.of foreign.' Powers took part in. the pageant, and the officers and men on. parade nuiitbered fully 2000, consisting Jpf r two troops of the Life Guards^ one of thai First Battalion of ,the;Crreiiadier Guards, one guard from eacli of the three battalion's of the Coldstream Guards, two guards of the First Battalion- of thai Scots Guards," two guards of; the Second:' Battalion of the-'Scots'Guards, and the massed Guards' Bands. The elaborate ceremonial was rperformed /with tha superb precision which jnvariably cham acterisos it; and which makes it London's greatest military spectacle-of that year.' .-..-. ■' r \ .■ ,'•..-, •:::'■ - '.•■"