LYING IN STATE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 9

LYING IN STATE

IN ST. GILES’S CATHEDRAL

VAST CROWDS PASS EARL HAIG’S COFFIN

Rugby, February i. Although it was after midnight when the special train carrying the body of the late Earl Haig' arrived from London at Edinburgh, an immense, silent crowd was present at the station, and the route to St. Giles’s Cathedral, along which it was borne on a gun-carriage escorted by troops and members of the British Legion, was lined with thousands of spectators The coffin was placed in the chancel, where it will lie in state, and a guard was mounted. On Tuesday, after a private service for relatives and friends, the coffin will be conveyed by road and rail to Dryburgh Abbey, where interment will take place. During the last part of the journey it will be carried on a farm cart in charge of Bemersyde employees.— British Official Wireless. By Telegraph.—press association. Copybight. London, February 5. It is estimated that 150,000 men and women passed through St Giles’s Cathedral on Saturday. The lying in state continues on Sunday afternoon and throughout Monday. (Rec. February .6, 9.10 p.m.) London, February 6. There were pulpit tributes to the late Earl Haig throughout the country yesterday. People all day were passing the coffin as it lay in St. Giles’s, Edinburgh, at the rate of two thousand an hour. The services were curtailed and the Cathedral kept open until 10 o’clock in the evening to enable the great crowd to pass. Lady Haig was only able yesterday to break the news of his father’s death to the son, who has been ill suffering from appendicitis. GENEROUS GIFT TO BRITISH LEGION APPEAL FUND BY GRATEFUL DANE London, February 5. A Dane, Herr F. K. Keilberg, whose wife is English, has sent £lO,OOO to the British Legion Appeal Fund in appreciation of the services of Earl Haig and his armies in helping Denmark to recover the Danish portion of Schleswig. CONDUCT OF THE WAR DOCUMENTS CONTAINING HAIG’S VIEWS Rugby, February 5. It is announced that the. late FieldMarshal Haig’s personal views on the conduct of the Great War will remain a close secret for Hie next twelve years. Documents written and compiled by him have been deposited with the trustees of the British Museum, and will not be opened until 1940. Mr. Gillson, keeper of the manuscripts at the British Museum, says that nobody knows what the documents really are or what thev contain. It is known, however, that Earl Haig, when Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, kept a .diary, in (which iie recorded daily the chief events, together with his personal views on the conduct of certain phases of the war—British Official Wireless. FLAGS AT HALF-MAST IN NEW ZEALAND The Acting-Minister of Internal Affairs (Hon. Sir Maui Pomare) informed a Dominion reporter yesterday that arrangements were being made for the Hying of flaps at half-mast on Government offices - 'throughout the Dominion to-day on the occasion of the burial of the late 'Earl Haig.