HALF MILLION MOURNERS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 180, 15 July 1927, Page 5

HALF MILLION MOURNERS.

FUNERAL Op MR O’HICGINS. WOMEN KNEEL IN MUDDY STREETS. London, Ju[y 13. Half a million mourners with bowed heads watched the gun carriage, draped with the Free State flag, bear Mr O’Higgins’ bodv to the grave. Hundreds of fashionable women knelt in the muddy streets, praying beside the poorest, as the mile long cortege possed. Scores fainted. Three hundred black-cas-socked pgiests chanted the requiem at St. Andrew’s Cathedral. Archbishop Byrne was the celebrant. The crowded congregation included the majority of the Irish bishops. Mr Healy Mr Cosgrave, and members of Dail. Requiem mass was celebrated in Westminster Cathedral, where Mr Churchill. Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lord Balfour, and Mr Amery attended.

Mr O’Higgins’ grave is near Parnell’s. which is still without a stone, while Michael Collins and Arthur Griffiths are a quarter of a mile distant. Ten army lorries draped in black carried the wreaths.—(A and N Z.) VOTES OF CONDOLENCES. (Received 15, 12.50 p.m.) Ceneval July 14. Mr Gibson opened the proceedings at the plenary session by proposing a vote of condolence with the Free State in the assassination of Mr Kevin O'Higgins, which the Hon. W C. Bridgeman and Admiral Saito sun. ported. 1 Mr 'White, the Free State delegate, eloquently replied.