SIMPLE CEREMONY TO CONTEST PRESIDENCY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 274, 9 February 1928, Page 11

SIMPLE CEREMONY

TO CONTEST PRESIDENCY

EARL HAIG’S FUNERAL BURIED AT BEMERSYDE By Cable.—Press Associatioti. — Copyright. LONDON, Wednesday. The simplest ceremony marked the laying to rest of Field-Marshal Earl Haig in the tomb of his fathers in Dryburgh Abbey. Thousands of people stood bareheaded reverently lining the route as the coffin, which was covered by a Union Jack and preceded by a slowpacing Border detachment of the British Legion, wearing poppies and accompanied by eight of the Bemersyde estate employees, was conveyed along the five miles of hilly lanes in a farm cart. The cart was drawn by two draught horses and ahead of it was a local tenant-farmer’s cart laden with wreaths. Countess Haig, accompanied by relatives, followed the coffin. The last half-mile was covered on foot. After the interment the choir sang, “Onward Christian Soldiers,” and the pipers played a requiem. The notes of a bugle rang out sounding the “Reveille.” “Carry on the work of the British Legion,” says Lady Haig, in a letter of thanks for the worldwide expressions of sympathy. “Hold fast to the objectives embodied in the legion’s charter. The legion’s work has only begun. My husband lived and died by its ideals.” The Labour Party has tabled an amendment to Mr. Baldwin’s motion. It demands the setting-up of a select committee to consider the most fitting form for a memorial, in view of Dari Haig’s known concern for ex-service-men and their widows and dependants.

EX-STATE GOVERNOR CAMPAIGN COMMENCES By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 9.5 a.m. CHICAGO, Wed. Mr. F. O. Lowden is now officially a Republican candidate for Presidential nomination, having filed a petition at Illinois for a place in the ballot. Although it has been definitely known before that Mr. Lowden considered himself a candidate, this marks the beginning of his active effort to obtain votes. —A. and N.Z. Frank Orren Lowden was born in Minnesota in 1861. He practised Jaw in Chicago from 1887 to 1906, and lectured in law at the North-western University in 1899. He was a Republican member of Congress from 1906 to 1911. He was Governor of Illinois from 1917 to 1920, and was elected president of the International Press Foundation in 1926. “LEFT DOOR AJAR” COOLIDGE CRITICISED By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright. WASHINGTON, Tuesday. A debate took place in the Senate to-day upon the resolution introduced on January 31 by Mr. R. M. La Follette, Republican member for Wisconsin, condemning the idea of a President filling office for three terms as being “unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with perils to our free institutions.” The members could not agree as to whether Mr. Coolidge could be nominated in view of his statements that he is not a candidate. Mr. F. H. Gillett, Republican member for Springfield, indicated that he believed Mr. Coolidge had withdrawn, but he also opposed the resolution. Mr. W. C. Bruce, Democrat member for Baltimore, said Mr. Coolidge had “left the door slightly ajar.”—A. and N.Z.