M. PAUL DOUMER.
A STATE FUNERAL. BURIAL IN FAMILY VAULT. (ONITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—BY ELECTRIC TELEOBArH—COPYRIGHT.) PARIS, May 9. Yielding to the widow's entreaty that M. Paul Doumer should lie alongside his four Bons, who fell in the Great War, the Government has agreed that after the ceremony at the Pantheon, the body be interred in the family vault at Baugirard. The body is now lying in State in the Elysee, where there has been a long procession of mourners, despite rain s.nd an icy wind. BRITISH SYMPATHY. PRINCE OF WALES FLYING TO PARIS. (BRITISH OFWCIAL WIRELESS.) RUGBY, May 9. The Prince of Wales will fly to Paris on Wednesday to attend the funeral of President Paul Doumer as representative of his. Majesty the King. He will return by air after the ceremony. In the House of Commons to-day Mr otanley Baldwin (Lord President of the Council) gave notice that he to-morrow would move an address to the King requesting his Majesty to express on behalf of the House abhorrence, of the crime and sympathy with the Government and people of France. A similar motion will bo moved in the House of Lords,
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20543, 11 May 1932, Page 11
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