"CARRY ON."

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 33, 9 February 1928, Page 7

"CARRY ON."

Lady Haig's Exhortation To British Legion. EARL'S SIMPLE FUNERAL. LONDON, February S. Thousands of people stood bare-headed reverently lining the route as the coffin of the late Earl Haig, which was covered by a Union Jack and preceded by a slow-pacing Border detachment of the British Legion, wearing poppies ar.d accompanied by eight of the Bemersyde estate employees, Mas conveyed along the five miles of hilly lanes in a farm cart from the station to Dryburgh Abbey.

The cart was drawn by two draught horses and ahead of it was a local tenant-farmer's cart laden with wreaths. Countess Haig, accompanied by relatives, followed the coflin. The last halfmile was covered on foot.

The simplest ceremony marked the laying of the great tield-marshal to rest in the tomb of his fathers. After the interment the choir sang, ''Onward Christian Soldiers,"' and the pipers played a requiem. The notes of a bugle rang out sounding the Reveille. "Carry on the work of the British Legion," says Countess Haig, in a letter of thanks for the world-wide expressions of sympathy. '"Hold fast to the objectives embodied in the legion's charter. The legion's work has only begun. My husband lived and died by its ideals."

In the House of Commons the Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, gave notice that he would move a motion to-day regarding the death of Earl Haig, and would propose the erection of a memorial. The Labour party has tabled an amendment to Mr. Baldwin's motion. It demands the setting-up of a select committee to consider the most fitting lorm for a memorial, in view of Earl Haig's known concern for ex-servicemeu and their widows and dependents.

JELLICOE CHOSEN. SUCCESSOR TO HAIG. (Rccei- :d 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 8. The British Legion has invited Lord Jellicoe to succeed Earl Haig as its president.