LAID TO REST

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11302, 30 August 1922, Page 6

LAID TO REST

MR COLLINS’S FUNERAL GREAT DEMONSTRATION OF MOURNING. AMONG HIS OLD COMRADES. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 28. Tho funeral of Mr Collins proved the greatest demonstration of mourning eves- seen in Dublin. Full military and civic honours were accorded the dead leader. Immense numbers lined the route, which was four miles long and embraced most of the principal thoroughfares. Requiem Mass was celebrated at the Pro-cathedral in the morning and was attended by the foreign, consuls, distinguished civic and military leaders. Both Mr Lloyd George and Mr Winston Churchill were represented. The procession was headed by an escort of cavalry and 1000 soldiers, the pick of the National Army, followed the gun-carriage. Six bands played the funeral music, including national dirges by Irish pipers. At the graveside a detachment of Dublin Guards formed the firing party. Mr Collins was buried in the centre of a plot specially reserved for soldiers of the National Army, .so the dead chief lies among his old comrades. Thousands of workers from Londonderry had arranged to hold a picnic at Buncrana to-day, but the Free State authorities prohibited it out of respect for the late Mr Collins. BRIDGES BLOWN UP THOUSANDS PREVENTED FROM ATTENDING FUNERAL. (Received August 29, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 28. Rebels blew up a number of railway bridges in North Kildare and prevented thousands of Southern Irishmen attending Mr Collins’s funeral. REBELS DRIVEN OUT (Reuter’s Telegram.) LONDON, August 28. The rebels have been driven out of the Waterville cable station, the chief terminal of the Commercial Cable .Company.