The Archive · 1899

Tre Military Tournament

The Agricultural Hull is once mor crowded daily for the great military, of the year, It is extraordinary what hold these displays have obtained upon thy affections of Londoners and their ins. Vast xs the islington is it will not hold by thou: the numbers who want to see the spectacle. The New South Wales Leneers who have come over here for (raining are among the most popuhir of che ea ts for prize. and the more theatrical parts of the entertain are specially attractive, pageant of Warciors of which with ay much vents ical research can nttai the military costumes and equipments of the times of the Wars of the Roses and of the Battle of Newbury hive been rep duced, while the periods of the In Mutiny and the recent Buttle of Khnrtor ure uls+ represented. The Combined Display," which is also x principal of the tourinment this year takes the of w representation of the storming of the Malay stockade of Passer Sala in 1875.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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