CLEMENCEAU DEAD

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1929, Page 5

CLEMENCEAU DEAD

ENGLISH PRESS TRIBUTES

(United Preea Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright).

LONDON, Nov

Tho English newspapers pay ginwing tributes to the late .M. ('lenience au as having been one of lno most significant and decisive heroes in the world war.

MAN’WHO SLEPT 1)11 ESS EL 1

PARIS. Nov 2o

During recent years tho late AT. Clemeneeau never undressed or went, lo bed. He simply took off his collar, and threw himself on a hard mattreas that rested on boards, being thus ready in the event of insomnia, to rise and continue the work ol writing. Thus, it may be said, he literally died in his boots. , SECRET BURIAL. PAIIIS, Nov. 25. of Ahe M. Clemene.tau wjll bey-carried pyt, without a religious' service or, .ceremony, of. any. kind. ’Bs grave wilt; be : . dug, by, his own jcKauffeur. Nobody hut in ß re ' a ' tives anti,the Vendge villagers are to, be admitted 1 to the ground.

The pojic.c .are assisting the aesirp to. preserve ,the closest .secrecy, and arte, stopping all. motor traffic to - the. village,,,;’ Nevertheless salutes are tp, ho prod thrpu|diout'France to-morroty,. ~v . ' UNUSUAL FUNERAL, NO RELIGIOUS SERVICE. (Received this day at 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, November 24. In pouring rain, at two in the morning, M, Clemenceau’s coffin was taken to a lonely briar clump at Vendee toi interment. Only four cars followed the hearse. Furthermore, in keeping with the “ iy,ish , i there,.was.uo pomp. . The jppjy. puhlic jtrjbute ..was the. hr-t ing, of, ...salutes .throughput: France at the,,.pjonient. fth9 coffins wap.placed .up-, rigjhit r ip i.tfye gEgjre, ;v;itbout any form, of i, ~ . It that, . during M~ 'Clemenceau’s last hours, despite the fact that lie was a declared agnostic, Sis, prayed at thp bedside till,, his, {death i ■ whjph, > i aocordipg. to her •was,, m.inps, the church-s blessing and sacraments, ,but “:Cod is good. He will surely receive him.”