THE DEAD MARSHAL

Evening Star, Issue 20133, 25 March 1929, Page 6

THE DEAD MARSHAL

PAPJS !!i MOIMNIHG MANY MOVING SCENES Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. | PA I'IS, M:ut!i -3. | All day long the Rue Crenelle, where Marshal Koch's house is situated, was Idled with sympathisers. Ju the afternoon the public was admitted, and 20,000 hied past tlie body. At the head ol the coffin there are the intcr-Allied .standard and Marshal Koch’s fiag as Generalissimo of the Allied armies, which was kept beside him throughout Ids illness. At the loot there are the batons belonging to the offices of Marshal of France and Field-Marshal of Britain, while a cushion beside the coffin contains his French, - British, and other decorations. The whole city is in mourning. Hags being hall-masted on every building. The funeral day will be an official day of mourning, and the Stock Fxchango and the State theatres will close. Thousands have signed the register at Marshal Foch's house, one of those who signed being the mother of eight sons, all of whom were killed during Ihe war. She now mourns with the whole of France for the great commander who saved the country. A schoolboy signed on behalf of Ids males. Lady Haig sent a lovely wreath of laurels and poppies with affectionate respects “ to the comrade of my husba ml.” Sir Granville Byrie (High CommisI doner for Australia) is going to Baris on Monday to represent Australia at the funeral.—Australian Press Association. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. J Picsa Association—O’* Telegraph—Copyrigbi PARIS, March 23. The capital will see another march past of the Allies on Tuesday, not in die lull linsh of triiimlpii, as on July If, 1919, but in su'd umcmbraiiee ul their great leader. Full details of the funeral have not yet been announced, but it is understood that the body will he trdisported privately on Sunday morning to.the Arc de T riomphe, where it will remain until Monday evening, when it will bo taken to Notre Dame and placed in the centre of the nave. The funeral service will begin at 9 o'clock on Tuesday, and will last about r.n hour, after which the cortege will ho .formed, including foreign delegations and contingents, and it will proceed to Des Invalided, where M. Poincare will deliver the (nation. Then troops will march past, all the regiments in France being represented. The body will rest in a rotunda dominating the tomb of Napoleon.-—Austra-lian Press Association. SERVICE IN LONDON. WESTMINSTER CAT!IOLTC CATHEDRAL. Press Association- -By Telegraph -Copyright LONDON, March 23. The whole Empire was represented at a solemn requiem inavs which was held at Westminster Cathedral for Marshal Foch. . The Prince of Wales, wearing the uniform of a colonel of the Grenadier Guards, knelt alone at one side of the catafalque, .on which lay a tricolour and a Field-Marshal’s plumed hat, baton, and sword, recalling that Marshal Foch was a British Field-Marshal. Mr Baldwin occupied a similar .position opposite the Prince of Wales. The front portion of the nave was filled with representatives of the Navy, including Em-1 Jellieoe, the Army, the Air Fjart-e, and all departments of civil, life. Sir James Parr represented New Zealand. The catedral was packed. When mass was concluded Cardinal Bourne, accompanied by' four Roman Catholic bishops, numerous clergy, ami the choir, marched in procession to the catafalque, where Cardinal Bourne recited appropriate portions of the burial j service and pronounced absolution, (hiring which the Prince of Wales remained kneeling within the circle formed by members of flic procession about the catafalque. The buglers sounded ‘La Hetraiie,’ the French equivalent to the ‘ Last Post.’ The organ played the 1 Dead March ‘ from Saul as Cardinal Bourne, the Prince of Wales, and distinguished mourners went in procession from the cathedral.—Australian Press Association-United Service. DOMINION TO BE REPRESENTED. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright J LONDON, March 24. 1 Sir James Parr and Major Owen Mead will represent New Zealand at Marshal Foch’s funeral.—Australian Press Association.

DOMINION’S SYMPATHY APPRECIATED. [Pas United Peess Association. J INVERCARGILL, March LM. The Prime Minister (Sir Josc|ili Ward) this morning received the Following message from M, Poincare (Prime Minister of France) in reply to his message oF sympathy in the recent dcatli of Marsha Foch :—■ “ Will yon kindly accept my keen personal thanks ami those oF the Government oF the Republic For the sympathy which your colleagues and Fcllowciti/.cns have so sincerely expressed in connection with the great bereavement which has befallen France.”