The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1911. KING GEORGE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 103, 21 June 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1911. KING GEORGE.

It has been well pointed out by one writer unit King George V., whose Coronation takes place to-morrow, is the most Imperially-minded of all British Sovereigns. He has had the extraordinary good fortune to bo able, before coming to the Throne, to visit many parts of Ids world-wide Dominions and to make himself personally acquainted with the thought and institutions of the. millions that owe him allegiance. Every race and every hue are represented in his subjects who. rally to the flag upon which the sun never sets. The reign of George V. promises to be that of an evergrowing progress in Imperialistic sentiment, and the personality and special knowledge of tuo Monarch will promote the ties that bind the Dominions overseas to the Motherland. The King’s visit to India, the first paid by. a reigning Sovereign will bo an event of tar-reaching significance. The Empire over which King George V. rules is the greatest tiie world has ever seen. '.there never has been anything like it. Alexander the Great sighed untimely for more worlds to conquer; there w'ere parts of this which aid not own him lord. He did not conquer India, because his soldiers refused to follow him after his march from tlie Punjab to the Sutlej. Hp did not effect too conquest of Rome or .Carthage. The Romans never possessed India, and they never heard of Australia; they never dreamed that there was such a place as America. They were two continents short. The British arc the only people to-day who own an entire continent, to say nothing of their share of the four others. All told, Britain owns nearly 111 million square miles, which is more than a fifth of the entire surface of the earth. There are supposed to ho 1.800,1)00,00(1 people in the world, and of these 110,000,000 are subjects of King George. He rules over an area which is just short of four million square miles of , the American continent, which is a quarter of a million more than the entire United Stales. The Australasian continent gives million miles; he has over 2.V million'miles in Africa, 2 millions in Asia, and, to balance climates, Britain reserves a matter of IbOO square miles in the Antarctic, calling it South Georgia. And to-morrow in every corner of the great Umpire the subjects of His Majesty will demonstrate their loyalty towards the 'Throne. Hero in Stratford wo shall gather to recognise in the Junction of the crowning ol the King thug highest pitch of solemnity which state ceremonial may roach, and in our after celebration's that wo unite joyously and with true meaning in the prayerful w ish, “GOD SAVE THE KING.”