NAVAL FIELD MASS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 199, 24 August 1925, Page 8

NAVAL FIELD MASS.

700 MKN AT ST. PATRICK'S. There was a full congregation at St. Patrick's Cathedr-al at 10 a.m. yesterday, when a solemn Held Mass was celebrated for New Zealanders and Americans who gave their live.* in the Great War. The celebrant of the Ma<s was the Rev. Fitther Buxton, D.D. The Very Rev. Dr. IT. Cleary, Kishop of Auckland, presided. Officers ami men from tlie fleet, to the number of 700, were present. Tlte service was of the most inspiring nature. Al the Elevation of the Host tliere were bugle calls, and at the conclusion, "Taps,"' the American equivalent of the. "Last Post" was sounded.. A bugler from the West Virginia, who stood at attention before the altar throughout, officiated. In the midst of all the festivities occasioned by the fleet's arrival, the dead were not forgotten, said Captain Chaplain Edmund A. Brodmann, of the West Virginia, senior Roman Catholic chaplain of the fleet, who preached the occasional orinon. At the altar of the church, a common centre for all, Americans ami New gathered to remember the fallen. The hospitality of the people of Auckland ami New Zealand was referred to in warm terms by Father Brodmann at evening devotions. He expressed the hope that the flags of the two great Englishspeaking nations would over fly side by side, in token of an enduring friendship.