THE IRISH PROBLEM
IRISH REBELS. Reuter’s TEIiEORAMS. LONDON, Aug 28. Rebels were driven out of Waterville cable station, the chief terminal of the Comercial Cable Company. FUNERAL OF COLLINS. AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aug 28. Mr Michael Collins’ funeral was the greatest demonstraton of mourning ever seen in Dublin. Full "V 11 *?* 5 and civic honours were accorded him. Immense numbers lined the route, which was four miles long, embracing most of the. principal thoroughfares. Requiem Mass was celebrated at the Pro-Cathedral in the moining. which Foreign Consuls distinguished military and civic leaders were preXt. Hon. Lloyd George • and Hon W. Churchil were represented in the procession, which was I,ended »y an escort of cavalry' and a thousanu soldiers, the pick of th e NationM Army, followed by a gun calling . - - S played the funeral music mcluding national dirges by H'sl np At the oraveside detachment Dublin guards formed a firing P Collins was buried in the centre plot specially reserced for soldieis National Army so that the dead Chief lies among old .
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1922, Page 3
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179THE IRISH PROBLEM Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1922, Page 3
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