AUSTRALIA IN MOURNING
BELOVED FIGURE
QUEEN'S PERSONAL MESSAGE
(Received April 10, 11 a.m.)
SYDNEY, This Day,
The whole of Australia is mourning for the late Mr. Lyons as one of the Commonwealth's most-beloved men as well as one of her greatest.
Messages of sympathy from the King and Queen and from the heads of other great nations were included in the thousands which have been received. Apart from the official message of the King and Queen, Queen Elizabeth sent to Dame Enid Lyons a personal message worded simply: "My deepest, sympathy."
Six of Mr. Lyons's eleven children will accompany Dame Enid at the State funeral tomorrow. They will also go to Devonport, where they will be. joined by the younger children for the private funeral there.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 83, 10 April 1939, Page 8
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