WORLD SYMPATHY

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

WORLD SYMPATHY

NATIONAL CALAMITY. Britain Receives Condolences From All Quarters. TOUCHING FRENCH SERVICES. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph— Copyright) (Received 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, October G. One satisfactory feature of the disaster was the remarkable worldwide expressions of sympathy. There was scarcely a civilised country in the world that did not.send a cable to London or instruct its representatives personally to express its regret. German newspapers devote pages to the disaster,, and recall that Germany also had to sacrifice valuable lives for the sake of the progress of aviation, adding that still more may have to be made for the. benefit of humanity on whose behalf the Englishmen died. The causes of the disaster were discussed in considerable detail, and the necessity for helium gas to replace hydrogen is emphasised by all German aviation experts. The majority foresee the disaster causing England to abandon airships and concentrate- on aeroplanes and flying boats of the type of Germany's Dornier DOX. Dr. Eckener announces that Britain has invited him to London to give his expert evidence at the public inquiry. A special message from Beauvais states that the committee of identification, including a senior Air Force officer, with a Cardington officer, knew all the men from Cardington, and another knew s.omo of the deceased. The committee worked all day but was unable to establish the identity of the majority. All the bodies are.now enclosed in lead-lined coffins, which have- been screwed up to spare the feelings of relatives who will be shown the clothes and articles, such as rings and keys, taken from the bodies. « A further effort to secure the identification of the bodies is being made to-day. The remains were taken in motor lorries to Beauvais amid military honours. The coffins were covered with wreaths and placed in the chapelle ardente in readiness for removal to England to-morrow, when full ceremonial will be observed. Those present will include M, Tardieu, French Premier, and M. Laurent Eynac, French Air Minister. Representatives of the Ministers of War and Marine, besides detachments from the artillery, cavalry, infantry and air force will also take part. The bodies will be removed on gun carriages amid a salute of 101 guns, while- 50 aeroplanes will circle overhead. A special train will proceed to Boulogne, whence the bodies will 'be taken to England in destroyers Tempest and Tribune in. readiness for interment, which tho Air Ministry has suggested to the relatives should, owing to tho impossibility of rccognisng many of the bodies, be a general burial probably near Cardington, where a single memorial will be erected.