CARRANZA’S DEATH

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 245, 17 July 1928, Page 9

CARRANZA’S DEATH

NEW YORK’S GREATEST MILITARY FUNERAL TEN THOUSAND! TROOPS TO ASSIST (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. July 10, 7.10 p.m.) New York, July 15. Silout crowds packed the suu-baked streets around the chapel where the body of Captain Emilio Carranza is lying among heaps of floral tributes. New York City is planning the greatest military funeral in the city’s history. West Point cadets, forming a guard of honour, will escort the body to the train on which it will be taken to Mexico. It is estimated that ten thousand troops will assist in the funeral. ■ The President of Mexico, General Calles, sent a model of Carranza’s plane, made of scarlet and white flowers, to Colonel Lindbergh, inscribed: "Life dedicated to country and death to entire world.” Mexican advices state that Carranza had already been promoted to major, and will probably receive the posthumous rank of general in the Mexican army. The remains of the plane will be placed in, the Mexican National Museum. A monument will be erected at the runway from which he left Mexico for Washington.