PLAGE OF INTERMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19778, 31 January 1928, Page 5

PLAGE OF INTERMENT

PROBABLY ST. PAUL'S

(British Official News.) Pres* Association—By Wireless —Copyright.

RUGBY, January 30. (Received January 31, at 1 p.m.) The great strain of the war is understood to have been the cause of the death of Earl Haig. A medical expert opinion, it appears, holds that a muscle of the Field-Marshal’s heart had grown older than the heart itself through strain, and had collapsed. Lord Haig had come from Edinburgh to London to spend the week-end there and to attend a gathering of Boy Scouts on Saturday afternoon. He had consulted a doctor about his health before leaving Scotland, and was to proceed shortly to the Riviera. He collapsed while undressing at tlio home of his brother-in-law in London, and died soon afterwards. Lord Haig was sixty-six years of age. Hundreds of messages of condolence have been received by Lady Haig during the day. It is expected that tho deceased Field-Marshal will be interred in St. Paul’s Cathedral, where tho Duke of Wellington and Lords Nelson, Roberts, and Wolsoley, and other great soldiers are buried. It is considered possible that Marshal Foch will attend the funeral, and it is also suggested that King Albert of Belgium may do so.