EARL HAIG’S DEATH

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 46, 6 February 1928, Page 5

EARL HAIG’S DEATH

BURIAL ON TUESDAY COFFIN TO BE ESCORTED BY BEMERSYDE EMPLOYEES. NON-MILITARY SERVICE AT DRYBURGH ABBEY. [By Cable —Press Assn. — Copyright.) London, February 4After the service at St. Giles’ Cathedral on Tuesday next Earl Haig’s coffin will be entrained to St. Boswell’s, where it will be placed on. a farm cart and escorted by Bemersyde employees along the five miles of route to Dryburgh Abbey, where a non-military service will be held. It is estimated that 1'50,000 men and women passed through St. Giles’ Cathedral on Satin day. The lying in state continues on Sunday afternoon and throughout Monday.—(A. and N.Z.) BRITISH LEGION APPEAL FUND. A DANE’S HANDSOME DONATION London, Feb. 4. A Dane, Mr. F. K. Keilberg, whose wife is English, sent £lO,OOO to the British Legion Appeal Fund, as an appreciation of the services of Earl Haig and his armies in helping Denmark to recover the Danish portion of Schlesweig.—(A. and N.Z.) Earl Haig’s British Legion Appeal Fund exists to help the carrying out of the nation’s pledge of Christmas, 1918. As the late Earl reminded the public, “The terms of the bond were simple, clear and perfectly well understood by every man and woman in the land. They were, tthat no man who wont out to fight for his country in the crisis of its fate should be In a worse position on his return to civil life, and that the dependents of those who fell should be amply and fittingly cared for.”

The activities of Earl Haig’s fund cover a wide field, and include men of all ranks, their dependents, and the widows and orphans of those who fell, such essential services as finding them employment, assisting and advising thefii on questions relating to pensions, granting loans, free of interest, to enable them to establish enable them to emigrate, giving them free legal advice on housing, employmen, and similar matters, Helping to educate the children, and so give them a fair start in life, and serving generally to discharge the obligations incurred through the national pledge.

UNFORGETTABLE SCENES IN Edinburgh. CROWDS OUT IN MOST-COVERED STREETS. London. Feb. 4. There were unforgettable scenes at midnight, when the body of Earl Haig was conveyed through the streets of his native city of Edinburgh to St. Giles’ Cathedral, where it will lie mi state until Tuesday. Despite tho late hour and piercingly cold wind, people of all ages and classes made pilgrimage to Princess street station and waited in the frostcovered streets. Tin) approaches to the station were impassible when tho special traiu' arrived at .12.7 this morning. Eight artillerymen bore the coffin to the gun-catriage. The pipers played “Tho Flowers of the Forest,” and the prsmossion was headed by a battalion of the Scots Greys to the Cathedral.—(A. and N.Z.) DA.<fY OF WAR YEARS. HANDED TO BRITISH MUSEUM. NOT TO BE OPENED UNTIL 1940. London, Febr. 4. The “Daily Express” roveals that Earl Haig, shortly before- his death, deposited his diary of the war years with the trustees of the British Museum, with a proviso that the seals on the manuscript, which is now In the strongroom, must remain unbroken until 1940. The dairy is frank and fearless, but the contents are known only to oneintimate friend outside the family circle. He is a famous racing peer. —(A. and N.Z.)