IRISH AFFAIRS

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 3

IRISH AFFAIRS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) WOMANLY SYMPATIIY. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. Mrs Bal'd win has written to Mrs O’Higgins, saying: “ L hesitate to intrude in your terrible time of suffering, but I want you to know there are English people who admired your husband as a patriot and a man, and that he should have been a victim of cowardly murder fills us with unspeakable horror. Words fail in which to express my sympathy with you in the loss of your husband. I feel for you intensely.”

FUNERAL OBSEQUIES. (Received this day at 11 0 a.m.) LONDON, July 13. Dublin was a hushed city on the occasion of Air O’Higgins’s funeral. Similar scenes have not been witnessed since Michael Collins was buried. AIV business was suspended and the Courts closed. The body was taken last night from Mansion House to St. Andrew's Church in the vicinity of which vast crowds gathered early this morning. Many people laboured under intense emotion while the solemn Mass for tho dead was celebrated. The service was most impressive. Crowds lined the route to Glasncvin Cemetery and thousands were marshalled in a procession ready to take their places immediately the coffin was placed on a gun-carriage. It is estimated that half a million people watched the funeral, men and women weeping openly.