CANADIAN GRIEF

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20170, 13 February 1940, Page 7

CANADIAN GRIEF

WORLD TRIBUTES ROYAL SYMPATHY DEATH OF TWEEDSMUIR BODY TO LIE IN STATE ASHES FOR SCOTLAND (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) tßecd. Feb. 13, 10.15 a.m.) OTTAWA, Feb. 12. Flags are flown at half mast throughout Canada in mourning for the passing of the Governor-General, Lord Tweedsmuir, whose death accurred last evening at Montreal.

Pulmonary embolism, which suddenly developed after the third operation, was the immediate cause of Lord Tweedsmuir’s death, according to the physicians. At the bedside of Lord Tweedsmuir were Lady Tweedsmuir and their son Alastair. The two doctors who performed the second and third operations administered manual artificial respiration for an hour and a half before Lord Tweedsmuir’s death. Lady Tweedsmuir kissed the day nurse as she left the hospital weeping.

A hundred Grenadier Guards formed a guard of honour when the body was placed in the funeral railway carriage at Montreal for conveyance to Ottawa, to lie in state in the Senate chamber until the State funeral service on Wednesday afternoon at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, which Lord Tweedsmuir attended. Thereafter the body is to be returned to Montreal for cremation. The ashes will be buried in Scotland. Messages of Sympathy

Lady Tweedsmuir has received messages of sympathy from all parts of the world. They include messages from the King and Queen, the Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, President Roosevelt and the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull.

Officials throughout Canada paid public tributes, many by radio. Among the latter was a tribute by Mr. Mackenzie King, who termed Lord Tweedsmuir one of the greatest of Canada’s Governor-Generals. President Roosevelt said he was shocked and grieved by the news of Lord Tweedsmuir’s death.

Many engagements, public meetings and broadcasts in connection with the elections to be held on March 26 will be changed or cancelled. The Prime Minister advised several Cabinet Ministers at present campaigning in the provinces to return to Ottawa immediately.

Possible Successor

The Premier of Ontario, Mr. Mitchell Hepburn, planned to adjourn the Ontario Legislature immediately after a meeting to-day.

The Canadian Chief Justice, Sir Lyman Duff, has been sworn in as acting Governor-General. He will be the King’s representative until the successor to Lord Tweedsmuir arrives in about two months. Lord Tweedsmuir’s term would have expired next autumn when he intended to return to Scotland. The most-prominently mentioned possible successor is Lord I Elgin, the Duke of Devonshire.