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Show GORGEOtS CER.EMON1ES MARK THE 4 : GRAND DURBAR. AT DELHI, INDIA kuxhess of cctinnuonr ........ ..... '' '. Two hundred and twenty of the fiugest elephants in Asia trumpeted a salute to th,e Viceroy of the Kaisar-1-Hind as he and his American wife made their state entry into the ancient capital of the Moguls Dec. 29. . Since the days of the great Aurung-zebe, Aurung-zebe, the descendants of . Tamerlane, India, has seen no such splendor as the pageant around the Jumma Musjid when the ruling Princes filed past the Viceroy and the Emperor's brother. Each monster elephant, almost hid-len hid-len in the gorgeous embroideries of Cashmere, iridescent with gold, silver, pearls and precious stones, raised his trunk and trumpeted a homago as his royal master raised his jeweled scimitar scimi-tar to his turban in salute to the ab-eent ab-eent Emperor. . At the head of the elephant procession proces-sion rode Lore), and Lady Curzon on the state "Grand Tusker," twelve feet high, the largest elephant in India. Their howdah was decked with goW, and silver, and the elephant itself vas aimost "Biaden beneath a gold worked ' saddle-cloth. Surrounding them were footmen in scarlet and gold liveries and bearing massive silver staves. The Duke of Cbnnaught, who represented repre-sented King Edward, and the. Duchess of Connaught followed. Their elephant was equally gorgeously caparisoned j Then, in order of precedence, came the Nizam of Hdyerabad, the Maharajah of Travancore and other ruling chiefs, seventy ' in all, their huge elephants forming a line a quarter of a mile in length. !, The route was entirely lined by British Brit-ish and native troops. From! Che battery bat-tery posted at the fort commanding the Lahore gate, guns thundered out . a . royal salute as the Viceroy passed, with the heralds and trumpeters sounding at intervals spirited fanfares. In the rear of the procession rode General Lord Kitchener,, ithe . Commander-in-Chief , in India, surrounded by a brilliant staff and followed by the heads of the provinces, with escorts of Indian cavalry and tribal leaders fiom beyond "1Er border line. i Down the mam street moved the cortege through lines of saluting soldiers sol-diers and excited, surging throngs of natives; through the, ancient "city, with the balconies and housetops teehv ing with life, and through the Moree gate :intb the"' open J ' park J ' beyond. ' There, after a four-mile march, the. elephants ele-phants of "the Viceroy -and; the Duke of Connaught halted 'side "by side," and the pageant was concluded with the great Princes filing by, their elephants trumpeting a salute. The Viceroy was in state uniform; Lady Curzon was dressed in gray, the Duke of Connaught wore a field marshal's mar-shal's uniform ' and the Duchess of i Connaught was in blue. They received a flattering welcome at all points. A touching feature of the spectacle is said to have been the' presence of a .descendant, by the -female line, of the last! King of Delhi,. :. whose . sons were executed by the' British ifor- their part in the Indian mutiny of 1857, the King himself being senj-f'ato life exile, and dying a few years l'atefT" j |