KING GEORGE IN INDIA
FIRE IN’ THE DURBAR CAAIP. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright DELHI, December 5. A sensation has been caused owing to the King’s magnificent reception, tent for the Indian princes attending the Durbar being burned. DEPARTURE FOR DELHI. (Received December G, 11.55 p.m.) BOMBAY, December 6. King George and Queen Mary privately visited the elepbanta caves. They started for Delhi amid continuous cheering. The marquee destroyed in the Durbar camp was not the Shamiana, which is to he the centre of the investiture ceremony. Tho fire followed a rehearsal, and is attributed to a spark from a passing train. An accidental fire in a shed a mile off, containing fireworks, killed two men. Their comrades, noticing the outbreak, escaped. >
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7977, 7 December 1911, Page 5
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