RED PREDOMINANT
SOVIET DIPLOMAT’S FUNERAL COMMUNIST DEMONSTRATION. (Sydney “Sun" Cable.' (Received November 27, 5.5 p.m.} LONDON, November 26. In a coffin resting on a rod poll, surrounded by four black-rotted and rodribboned guards of honour—two men and two girls—the late M. Krassin lie*in state in the reception hall, which i> draped in Mack ami rod. at Chodiam House, the headquarters of tho Soviet Embassy. THOUSANDS IN PROCESSION (Received November 28. 5.5 j.m.) LONDON. November 27. M. Krassin’s funeral was made tho occasion cf an imposing Communist procession to the Goklers Green Cemetery. Five thousand persons, wearing red favours, j>nrticipated. After the service at the crematorium tho ashes were taken to the Embassy, for burial under tho walls of the Kremlin. Thirty motors left the Embassy lor Goldcrs Green, the chief mourners riding in a magnificent Rolls-Royce with a red-flagged bonnet. The coffin \\ uncovered with a red pall.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 3
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147RED PREDOMINANT New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12616, 29 November 1926, Page 3
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