LAST SAD RITES
LORD CARSON’S FUNERAL MOVING PUBLIC DEMONSTRATIONS BELFAST, October 20. (Received Oct. 27, at 8 p.m.) Ten thousand shipyard workers stood bareheaded while the destroyer bearing Lord Carson’s remains was docked" Business was suspended and traffic also. Half a million people witnessed the sad procession from tiie quay to the cathedral, where hundreds of wreaths had been placed on special stands. The most moving was a bunch of violets held together by the famous Covenant badge issued to the thousands who rallied to Sir Edward Carson’s call in 1914. A card attached said: ‘From a humble member of the Union Defence League to a great man.” The pallbearers included the Prime Minister and most of the members of the Cabinet. A large and distinguished gathering attended the funeral service. The coffin was Iwrne to its moss-lined grave in the south aisle of the cathedral, and later tens of thousands filed past throughout the afternoon, many bearing flowers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22713, 28 October 1935, Page 10
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