LOOKING AFTER KING ALFONSO.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1761, 28 May 1913, Page 8

LOOKING AFTER KING ALFONSO.

PROTECTION AGAINST ASSASSINS. Paris, May 9. The most remarkable precautions were taken yesterday for the protection of King Alfonso (luring his journey to Fontainebleait, to witness tlio great military review- , Tho whole length of the railway from Paris to l'ontainblcau was lined with infantry, involving tho employment of 100,000 troops. At dawn . sentries were placed along tho track at intervals of 100 yards and there tliey remained until 5.30 in the evening. Every bridjjo had a guard of ten men. . . . Throughout tho morning patrols scoured the woods in the vicinity of wherd the review was taking place, and during the progress of tho manoeuvres a cordon of infantry, with fixed bayonets, and standing almost shoulder to shoulder, was posted around a whole square mile of Frjitoinebleau's famous iorest.—Sydney "Sun."

The village church of Wallon-on-thc-Hill possesses the only leaden lout in Surrey. It is of fine desi»n and workmanship, and an object of much interest to visitors. The same may )*> said »f Ihe chained Bible, which, hsuevei', »i,iy mislead the visitor who does not examine it closelv. The chain does, indeed, date from the days when the Scriptures in <-lmrehes* were thus guarded, but the Biblo which il secures is not much more than a century old.