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Show ROYALTYAT I Delaware Most Power- I ful Ship at the I Naval Parade I Portsmouth, England, Jun 24 Th. H was the day of ships and sailors. M The king and queen and tho foreign representatives at tho coronation left H the capital and came here for tho l great naval review of Splthead Fine weather put tho finishing touches on M one of the most magnificent displays IH of the week. IH Their majesties, accompanied by H the official envoys of other countries, i cume from London In a special train. M Tiie king wore an admiral's uniform, t M with a riband of tho Order, ot tho Gyirter. The Prince of Wales was In a midshipman's uniform. Tho queen, ' M Princess Mary and nearly all of tho H royal ladles were dreased In navy blue. With their majesties were ail the other members of the imporlal i family. I H Many special trains were run from London, carr-Ing Indian princes, peers and peeresses, members of pailla- H ment, lords of the admiralty and dl H plomats. The regular and the excur- M slon trains arriving during the morn- lng added great numbers to the thous- i ands already gathered hore from all H parts of the world. M Seventeen nations were represented- In the vessels moored In the Spit- H head roadstead, In the English chan- nel. between the mainland and tho M Isle of Wight Of the number, ten were battleships of the Dreadnaught class from tho ' M British navy and ono visiting Dread- nought, the German Von der Tan. First, however, In size and armament " M was the American battleship Dela- H The British Dreadnoughts were tho M Colosuss,Noptunc, Horcules, Colling- M wood, St Vincent, Vanguard, Bell Ro- i M phan. Temernire, Superb and Dread- M nought. H With these were four British cruis- M ers of the Invincible class, the Indc- M fatlgafole, tho Inflexibly tho IndomI- . ' M tablo and the Invincible. H utner powers sent vessels of the M pre dreadnought type. The Dan.ton H represented Franco, the armored H crulBcr Kurama represented Japan; I jH thc-Radolzkyfrom Au8tria,--the armor- J IH ed cruiser Son Marcos from Italy; "IH the armored cruiser Russia from Rus- 41 sla, the cruiser Relna Regente fr6m H Spain, the cruiser from Buenos H .Ayres, from Argentine, tho cruiser H Chncabuco from Chile. Sweden by the H armored cruisers Yelgla, and China H by the cruiser Hai Chi, Donmark bv H tho armored crulBer Wolfert Fischer"; H the Netherlands by the armored cruis- IH er Jacob Van Hemmskerk, and Nor- !H way by the armored cruiser Eidsvold IH Greece sent the armored cruiser Geor- H gelos Avcrof. H In addition to the official ropre- IH representatives of the seventeen visit- H lng nations, there were secondary H vessels from Japan, Italy and Chile. H |