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BRIAND’S FUNERAL

VAST ASSEMBLAGE

AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY.

(United Press Association—By Electric telegraph.—Copyright.)

PARIS, March 12. Hundreds cf thousands assembled iii hle.iK March sunshine to watch Monsieur Aristide Briand, France’s famous statesman laid to rest. Cardinal Archo/simp Verdeer, in the presence of the Papal Nuncio and the Clergy of tne GWcnedrai ol Aotre Dame, Paris gave the absolution. The deceased stale-man had been excommunicated for his part in the separating.of the Church and the State. The scene was the blackdraped court room of tiie Qual Ji’Orsay the only witnesses being President l)ouner tne relate es, and closest friends of the deceased, and members of the Cabinet. The occupants of stands outside gazed silently while the coffin win placed on a cartafaique, draped in the tri-colour.. Then the Prime Minister of France, M. Tardieu, delivered the funeral oration, saluting the dead in the name of France, and saying that M. Briand’s last words were, “Marne.” “Snlomcu,” “Verdun”—names which were inseparable from his own, M. Tardieu’s final tribute Was to M. Briand as the guide and philosopher of thtj. League of Nations in which he had interpreted the most powerful aspirations of an age of suffering. Hence the people would mourn him as an apostle. I . The coffin was then transferred to the hearse, which was escorted by de- ' tacliments of the Republican Guard, three hundred Poilus, carriages piled with wreaths, the Cabinet members, and the Ambassadors, including Lord Tyrrell, representing King George. The funeral procession ‘crossed the spacious ■Place He La Concorde, whose thousands of lamps were veiled in crepe. Between flanking guards and the silent populace the l hearse and its attendants passed slowly up the Champs Elysees to the Arc de Triomph, where there glows for ever the light, which M. Briand did so much to kindle.

The official section of the procession halted at the Trocacleronia, and only intimates thence accompanied the coffin to the quiet little cemetery of Passy, where it will rest until it is removed to Cocheril for permanent interment.

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Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1932, Page 5

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334

BRIAND’S FUNERAL Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1932, Page 5

BRIAND’S FUNERAL Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1932, Page 5

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