BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 37, 13 August 1923, Page 6

BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE

MEMORIAL SERVICES. .

-.-' LONDON, 10th August, Westminster Abbey was filled in every corner for a memorial service to President Harding; while an overflow service v_as_held at St. Margaret's. The Duke of Xork occupied the chief place, as lePresentuig. the King, while the Prince of Wales and other Royalties were repregentedi- -The' congregation: included members of the Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, and the Dominions' High.'Ceravrissipners. ■• .......;., ... ■ .

Canon Carnegie, in delivering an address, said it was fitting that ih . tho Abbey, this central shrine of our parent lineage, American and Britishers should unite in giving expression to the mutunl goodwill, sympathy, and- eolicitude aroused by President Harding's death. President Harding's life work did not fail to satisfy us. 1 Britishers and Americans alike • recognised hint as a man who tried to do his duty. c ,.A" I, en; orial service was also held in St. Giles', Edinburgh.

. PARIS, 10th August, me memorial service to the late President Harding, 1 in the American ProOathedml was largely attended. President xMillevand ' was represented, aiicl 'several members of Cabinet attended