MR REDMOND'S FUNERAL.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16214, 17 May 1918, Page 8

MR REDMOND'S FUNERAL.

WEXFORD, March 9.

The funeral of Mr Redmond to-day was as touching a spectacle of its kind as this generation has looked upon. On the journey by train from Kingstown to Wexford the peasantry were seen kneelin" and praying at railway stations ana level crossings. Close to Macmine, where tho fauns 'of Ypres, one of whom is a niece of Mr Redmond, have, through his efforts, found a new home, the sisters left the con- , verity and went into the fields, where they ' knelt in prayer /as the train passed.) 'The coffin was draped with the same Irish flag which covered Mr Paraell's on the journey from England 1 to Ireland.

A procession nearly two miles long followed the hearse and the mourping coaches through the branch- . ing streets of the town of Wexford. The - 6000 or 7000 people were'" of all ranks.v In tho old burial , ground of St.; John's, on the slope i , abpva-the harbour, he was laid, in the] companionship of many generations ofi , Redmonds and Talbots in the tomb of .the Allied families.

# It was a country funeral, and that J8 j why in agricultural Ireland it seemed to .carry with wonderful effect a national significance. The band of the Royal Irish Reginiont, which he helped to recruit, was one of the eight bands which marched. Sir Horace riunicettj Hhe chairman of the Irish Convention: Lord Londonderry, front Ulster; and many Parliamentary colleagues, headed by Mr Dillon and Mr Verb a, were present. General Sir , Bryan Maiion, Com-mander-m-Chief in Ireland, omitted no s.mgla step of the long march. With officers of Irish regiments was an American naval officer representing ihe forces now combating the submarine perils ■ There, was a representative of the Lord Lieutenant and the members of i the Irish Executive included Mp James " O Connor, the Attorney-General, a I Wexford ,man; Speeches pleading! for Irish-unity were delivered at the graveside by Mr Dillon and tlio Irishl Attorney-General.

, Mr Lin4J®y Jones, who has under- ' taken the saving of waste paper all over the United Kingdom for the t Paper Commission, has set up agents all over the country. The roughest kind of waste paper, rescued from dustbins, fetches 5s per cwt, and good clean ' newspapers and books £24 a ton. In % the City of London alone £800 was made in January from waste paper, and the estimates are £7000 to £8000 for'l9lß.