ATATURK’S FUNERAL
CEREMONIAL IN ANGORA FOREIGN DETACHMENTS PRESENT. THREE MINUTES’ SILENCE OBSERVED BY NATION. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) ANGORA, November 21. Amid the thunder of salutes fired by guns, the roar of escorting aeroplanes and the strains of dirges by weeping crowds, Kamal Ataturk’s funeral cortege made procession through rainswept streets. The coffin was followed by many important international personages. Foreign detachments of honour included British sailors, led by Admiral Sir Dudley Pound. Six generals placed the casket in a temporary resting place in the Ethnographic Museum to await the building of a mausoleum. Three minutes’ silence was observed throughout Turkey.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 5
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106ATATURK’S FUNERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1938, Page 5
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