DEATH ROLL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 7

DEATH ROLL.

RlOl DISASTER. SURVIVOR SUCCUMBS. 48 Bodies Reported Found On Scene of Crash. r SIGNS or STRUGGLE FOR LIFE. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, October 0. The Air Ministry officially states that 54 were oil board the airship. ■These have been doubly checked. It is reported from Boauvais, however, that 4S bodies have been found. Eight survivors were notified, one of whom, N. G. Eadcliffe, died yesterday in hospital. The position of the hands and arms of the dead indicated that death was not immediate. All seem to have fought hard for life. All the bodies were charred beyond recognition, and it is impossible to make physical identification. A national memorial service for the victims of the ElOl will be held at St. Paul's on October 10. The bodies are now lying in state in a room in the Town Hall at Beauvais. Each is shrouded by a British flag. M. Tardiou, French Premier, has proclaimed to-morrow as a day of national mourning throughout France. Standing in silence the leaders of the Imperial Conference passed a motion of sympathy. Mr. Mac Donald, Mr. B. B. Bennett (Canada) and Mr. Scullin (Australia) recorded their sorrow at the loss of the airship and paid homage to the gallant pioneers in the cause of progress, also expressing sympathy with the bereaved families. In connection with Lord Thomson's death, at the opening of the Labour Conference, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, paid a tribute to those who perished in ElOl, and. delegates stood in silence for a minute.