Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — King Edward Reviews Fleets. [ARTICLE]

King Edward Reviews Fleets.

Portsmouth, Eng., Aug. 10.—King Edward celebrated the anniversary of his coronation by reviewing the combined French and British fleets, aggregating some seventy ships. As a sjiectacle, the event was somewhat marred by gloomy and showery weather. but the enthusiasm of the crowd* was undimtnished. Enormous masses of ]>eople thronged both shores and there was a fleet of excursion boats filled to capacity.