KING FERDINAND BURIED.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 9

KING FERDINAND BURIED.

VAST FUNERAL CORTEGE.

BUCHAREST IN MOURNING

(BV CABLE— rEESS ASSOCIATION— COFTSIGHT). (AV9TBALUN AND S.Z. AND SUN CABLE.) BUCHAREST, July 24. Three Archbishops, twelve bishops, and 100 priests took part in King Ferdinand's funeral service. The family knelt about the coffin. Twelve Generals bore tho coffin to the gun-carriage, to which were harnessed six black horses .ridden by artillery captains. Meanwhile, the guns opened with a salute of 101 guns, and 400 churches commenced tolling their bells as the procession started in torrid heat with a pitiless sun. Before the coffin two of the oldest Generals boro the Royal Crown and Sceptre. Thirty Generals walked beside the gun-carriage, and behind paced King Ferdinand's favourite charger, draped in black. The cortege took two hours to pass a given point. It included members of tho Cabinet, high dignitaries of the Church and State, and thousands of troops and deputations from the Provinces arrayed in their national costumes. Hundreds of thousands of people lined the six-mile route from the palace to the railway station, pavements, windows, and trees being thronged. The larger buildings were hung with crepe, and clouds of incense rose at every street corner and church. Many military bands along the routo played tho National Anthem. The Generals carried tho coffin to the special train in which the Royal party .travelled to the place of interment at Curtea de Arges, one of the ancient capitals of Walachia. Four trains were employed to carry the official mourners. Another 101 guns were fired when the coffin arrived .at Curtea. A thousand priests participated in the procession to the monastery, and at the moment when the body was lowered to the crypt every garrison in the town fired 101 guns and fifteen hundred churches tolled their bells.

CAROL ACCLAIMED AS KING.

(ATTSTBALIAN AND N.Z. AMD STJJf CABLE.)

PARIS, July 24. Carol attended a service at the Rumanian Church. Ho was dressed in black and wearing all his decorations. Many youthful Rumanians cried: "Long live the King" when he emerged.