GERMAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1923, Page 2

GERMAN ITEMS

4V.STHAI.IAN ANI) N.St. CAlil.K ASSOCIATION. til Id ESSEX DEAD. (Received this day ai 9.1 d a.m.) ESSEX, April 11. The funeral <:f the seven workmen and live apprentices was the occasion ol an astonishing national demonstration. The funeral hell- began to toll throughout Germany at nine o’clock in the morning. The floral tributes, including those I nun the German and Russian Governments and one from the Communists of France, numbered many hundreds. In Essen itsell the streets were thronged from daybreak by people dres-ed in deep mourning, many carrying flowers, and all making for Alton Dorfertrasse, which cuts through Krupp’s works—the scene ol the tragedy. Here sixty thousand Krupp workers assembled, and a quarter of a million others lined the .streets to watch the passage ol the coffins which had guarded at night by ten miners in the uniform of the Miners’ Guild, each carrying a miner’s lamp lighted. Ihe re.-t of Krupp’s employees marching in two columns, four deep, on either side nl the road, preceded the coffins to the Cemetery, lour miles from town. When tile van reached the Cemetery gates the end of the prucos.-iuu was Mill at Krupps works. ITXERAI, OF VICTIMS. (Received this day at 9. hi a.in.) ESSEX”. April IE After the coffins had come into the slreei the silence was uiilnoken. except bv the singing of Krupp’s choir, the musicians were followed by the coffins, lour oil each of the three hear-cs. which were decked with evergreens. Relatives of the dead ami representatives of the Ma-ters and delegates of Trade Cnioiis followed, the latter carrying gold and siber multicoloured banners, and numbered at least three hundred. Winn they reached the cemetery the banner-bear-ers formed a great circle around the pulpit, from which graveside orations urr spoken. Manv otlmr mourners carried Hags, and us the coffin* ba-sdl the Ha e-bearer.' each dipped their Hag. At the graveside the speaker b>r the Worker-’ Council declared Krup|:werkrs 'were determined not to work under foreign bayonets. Altm ot n i oration.-, the twelve «uffms were hiw,.r,.il into the graves. During the n-t of the day every shop in »•* -hut and the blind- ol all houses unit

drawn. Throughout the funeral ceremonies. , lllt a -ingle French or Belgian so dim lo |„. -ecu. the military authoriti',.- having (unfilled all to the barrae e.