On Wednesday the King and Queen, Princess Mary, and the
Duke of Connaught visited Woolwich. During their drive by motor-car through South London from Buckingham Palace they were continuously cheered by large crowds. During the morning the King reviewed about a thousand troops on Woolwich Common and afterwards inspected the Royal Military Academy. In the afternoon an address was received from the Mayor of Woolwich, and then the Arsenal was visited. The thirteen thousand men at the Arsenal have been working at high pressure lately, and the Royal party, who were conducted round the Arsenal on the miniature light railway, inspected the various departments in full swing. The King is indefatigable in his determination to know his king- dom and all its services, public and private, at first hand. He is of course perfectly right to learn the nation like a new language, but it must be very bard work—much harder than the man in the street suspects.
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