THE GRAND DUKE
COFFIN LINED WITH SATIN.
SOIL IN LEFT HAND
(United'' Free* Association.*)
: (Uy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) PARIS, January 9. (Received Jan. 9, at 5.5 p.m.) The Grand Duke now lies in the Russian church at Cannes. His coffin is lined with white satin and he holds in his righthand a wooden cross from Mount Athos. His left hand is full of Russian soil and stone from the Caucasus mountains, where :he fought his last campaign.—Australian Press Association. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20612, 10 January 1929, Page 9
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