LAID AT REST

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 September 1928, Page 9

LAID AT REST

LATE EDITION

VICTIMS OF LSS.

AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL

TRIBUTE TO RUSSIANS

(British Official Wireless.) Received 12.10 p.m. to-day. RUGBY, Sept. 7

There were impressive and moving scenes at Haslar Cemetery, Portsmouth, to-day, when, with full naval honours, the remains of 42 officers and men oi' the British submarine Loo, which was sunk in the Baltic nine years ago, were interred. Gun carriages and motor lorries carried the coffins and wreaths, and behind came the principal mourners, the widows, fathers, andi mothers of the victims. There were present representatives of the Navy, Army, and Air Force, and the naval attaches from France, Italy, United States, Argentina, Peru, Japan, and Esthonia. The Admiralty representative was Vice-Admiral Haggard, Fourth Sea Lord. There were over 1000 officers and men in the procession. Owing to the impossibility of the individuals being identified no name was engraved) on any one oi the coffins. Captain Dearing, of the merchant steamer Truro, which Brought the bodies from Kronstadt to Reval, in an interview with a Press representative speaks highly of the attitude of the Russian authorities in connection with the embarkation of the bodies. He says: “Not even though the bodies had b£*en of their own countrymen could the Russians have paid them greater honour and courtesy. It was a remarkable tribute to the tradition of the sea in honouring the gallant dead iiiespective of the nation to which they belong.’’