JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 99, 30 April 1935, Page 5

JUBILEE CELEBRATIONS

CROWDS IN LONDON RESPLENDENT STREETS. ( British Official Wireless. ) RUGBY, April 27. ' Every new detail regarding the Royal Jubilee procession to Bt. .Paul’s Cathedral on May 6 is eagerly read, and the general impression is heightened that the event will be the most picturesque and striking of the kind London has seen for several years. i Many full dress uniforms, unfamiliar to the younger generation acquainted omy with the Royal Household cavalry ' and the service kit of other units, will be worn by the Dragoons, Hussars, Lancers, and other branches of cavalry, as well us by the Royal Horse Artillery. Over 1600 officers and men of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines will come to London to take their share in the pageantry. Admiring crowds last night saw St. Paul’s and Westminster Abbey brilI liantly illuminated by flood light installations. -More than 50 buildings of special interest in London alone are being floodlit by the authorities. On Jubilee Day the street decorations will be a large part and will conj sist of masses of growing flowers. I Regent Street, which is expending j ‘;JQ,OOO on decorations, will have on I each aide an unbroken line of floweri ing plants. , A tattoo of massed drums and pipers of the Royal Brigade of Guards will . e held on the Horseguards Parade on Jubilee Night and five other evenings I during -May. Crowds inspecting the street decora- ! toins to-day were reinforced by the | great army, of football enthusiasts ! who came to see the Cup final. CHAIN OF BONFIRES KING TO LIGHT THE FIRST. LONDON, April 28. ‘ The King will light the first of a main of bonfires across Britain and Lister by pressing a button in Buckingham ISjJace, thus inaugurating the Jubilee rejoicing, heralded Ey a peri formance of “Lohengrin” in die '’event Garden Opera House on April KING S NEW CAR LARGEST IN PRIVATE USE Received April 29. 9.5 p.m, i LONDON, April 29. I Tin- King's new ear for the jubilee! and other State occasions is the world’s : largest private car. It has a wheel- ! base of 156 inches and a track of 65 I inches. It carries no number plate, but ! i a small lamp emits a violet light dis tinguishing the Royal car at night. The j Royal Standard flies from a roof socket [ when the King is aboard.