Local short-wave, radio listeners will be interested to learn that the annual ceremony in Lóndon of "Trooping the Colour" by troops of the Household Brigade will be broadcast from Daventry this eve ning. The brilliant scene on the Horse Guards Parade, London, will be pictured by Daventry listeners by a B.B.C. observer and the tale will be taken up by the words of command, the music of the massed bands and the drum-beats that are an important part of the ceremony.
When his Majesty the King has inspected the parade, the stately ceremony of the actual Trooping begins. The Colour chosen for the honour, the King's Colour of the Battalion of the Brigade of Guards providing the King's Guard on the day in question, is. marched with an escort round the lines of Guards, who salute it as it passes. The cer—many ends with the troops marching past the King in slow and then quick time, after which his Majesty places himself at the head of his Guards and leads them up the Mall to Buckingham Palace.
The ceremony has its origin in the Eighteenth Century, and is really a much-elaborated version of the daily mounting of the guard, combined with ritual designed to impress soldiers with the true significance of Colours. It should be noted that although King George's birthday falls on December 14, the Trooping takes place on whatever date it' pleases his Majesty to name.
The ceremony will be broadcast from Daventry at 545 p.m. Shanghai time, the description being in the hands of Major J. B. S. Bourne-May (late Coldstream, Guards), on. the following wave-lengths:—13.93. metres, 2153 me/s; 13.97m., 21.47 me/s; 16.86m., 17.79 me/s; and 19.82m., 15.14 me/s.
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The packing cases, states the journal, were supposed to contain £50,000 sterling worth of anti-tank guns for China and were consigned to Marseilles on the British steamer Merkland.
A Deptford firm, the newspaper says, received an order for the supply of packing cases, to be made according to a War Office pattern, and to be delivered to a Tottenham address.
The firm, however, called in the Police when the driver of the lorry conveying the packing cases to the required address, revealed how the cases were filled.
The Chinese Embassy, questioned regarding the affair, stated that they had no knowledge of the alleged fraud.—Reuter, Eire President to Be Installed on June 25
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