ASHES MINGLE
NEAR RIOT OF BELGIANS AND GERMANS. CREMATORIUM SCENE. Paris, Sept. 23. An accident in the crematorium here recently nearly ended in a riot that might have considerably embittered feeling between Belgium and Germany. Belgium has no crematorium, and bodies to be cremated are usually brought here. A German, who died here, and a body from Brussels w r ere cremated on the same afternoon. The ashes were placed in small stone boxes, which were standing next each other on a slab. ( With sorrowing relations and friends of both deceased standing around, the attendants were about to place the lids on the boxes, when one of the German mourners tripped and stumbled against the slab, upsetting both boxes and mingling the ashes. Uproar followed, and a suggestion to equally divide the mixed ashes raised such a storm that the Belgians and Germans, crowding the crematorium, were only restrained from commencing a battle for the ashes by main force. Eventually the mourners were induced to depart, leaving the ashes in the keeping of the crematorium auth orities, pending a settlement of the dispute.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 29 September 1927, Page 6
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