FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20611, 28 December 1936, Page 7

FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

ROYALTIES TO ATTEND CORONATION KINGS AND RULERS FROM ALL CLIMES United Press Association—Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, December 26 Rulers and potentates from all over the world will attend the Coronation in May. They will Include at least five kings and three queens. From America, Tibet, India, China, Chile, and the remotest ends of the earth, the “Great” will assemble to do honour to the supreme Monarch, King George the Sixth. In cases where the rulers themselves cannot come, their envoys will be sent. Those in the glittering crowd will include 150 ruling Princes of India, with their retinues, King Christian of Denmark, King George of Greece, King Haakon of Norway, King Boris of Bulgaria, and King Carol of Roumanla. All these, with the possible exception of King Carol, will be the private guests of the Royal Family.

Crown Prince Umberto will come from Italy, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf from Sweden, and Princess Juliana from Holland. The President of the Portuguese Republic and the Kings of Iraq and Egypt will attend “in the quality of allies.”

The Turkish Premier will represent his country. Foreign Ministers will come from Germany, Russia, Hungary, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, Esthonla, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay. The U.S.A, envoy will come as Ambassador Extraordinary or as the personal representative of President Roosevelt. President Lebrun will represent France.

The task confronting the police with regard to the "protection” of these Important visitors is so formidable that it has been tentatively decided to call upon the Army for assistance. In addition to detectives, sentries will guard them night and day, the London Command having been called upon already to supply both soldiers and sentryboxes. At every palace, embassy, or mansion there will be a strong guard, for the British Government is in no mood to risk “unpleasant incidents.”