LYING IN STATE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 80, 9 August 1923, Page 5

LYING IN STATE

HARDING'S FUNERAL TRAIN. WREATHS FROM EVERYWHERE Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 8.40 a.m.) Washington, .'uigist 7. President Harding's i'u i-.--.il train arrived noarly twelve h urs ]atc\ on account of the vast crowds thronging the tracks at practically every station along the 3000-mile route. President Coolidge, Mr Taftj and General Pershing accompanied the military escort, which placed Harding's remains upon the caisson of the Unknown Soldier, and proceeded through a thronged • concourse to White House, where the body is resting in state to-night, amid as many flo.al tributes as could be placed in the east room wherein appeared wreaths from King George (Britain), M. Poincare (France), King Alfonso (Spain), and virtually every Government in"the world.