IN SAD REMEMBRANCE.

Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1929, Page 5

IN SAD REMEMBRANCE.

FUNERAL OF THE LATZ MARSHAL FOCH. allies again to MARCH past. ARRANGEMENTS FOR TO-MORROW United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, March 23. The capital will see another march past of the Allies on Tuesday, not in the full flush of triumph as on July 14, 1919, but in sad remembrance of a great leader. Full details of the funeral are not yet announced, but it is .understood that the body of Marshal Foch will be transported privately on Sunday morning to the Arc de Triomphe, where it will remain until Monday evening, when it will be taken to Notre Dame and placed in the centre of the nave. The funeral service will begin at nine o’clock on Tuesday and will last about an hour, after which a cortege will be formed, including the foreign delegations and contingents and proceed to the Invalides, where M. Poincare will deliver an oration. Then the troops will march past. All the regiments in France will be represented. The body will rest, not in the Chapel, but in the rotunda dominating the tomb of Napoleon.—(Australian Press Association.) NEW ZEALAND REPRESENTATIVES. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 23. Sir James Parr and Major Owep Mead will represent New Zealand at Marshal Foch’s funeral.—Australian Press Association.—United Service.). MASS AT WESTMINSTER. IMPRESSIVE BRITISH TRIBUTE. (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 23. The whole Empire was represented at the Solemn Requiem Mass held in Westminster Cathedral for Marshal Foch. The Prince of Wales, wearing the uniform of Colonel of the Grenadier Guards, representing the King, knelt alone at one side of a catafalque on. which lay the Tricolour, and a Field Marshal’s plumed hat, baton and sword, recalling that Marshal Foch was a British Field Marshal. Mr. Baldwin occupied a similar position opposite the Prince of Wales. The front portion of the nave was filled with representatives of the Navy, including Earl Jellicoe, the Army, Air Force and all departments of civil life. Sir James Parr represented New Zealand. The Cathedral was packed, those present including members of the British Legion, French ex-Service men, of whom the disabled clustered about the Tricolour and banners. When the Mass concluded, Cardinal Bourne, accompanied by four Roman Catholic bishops, numerous clergy and the choir, marched in procession to the catafalque, where Cardinal Bourne recited appropriate portions of the burial service and pronounced Absolution, during which the Prince of Wales remained kneeling within the circle formed by members of the procession about the catafalque. Buglers sounded La Retraite, the French equivalent to the Last Post, and the organ played the Dead March in Saul, as Cardinal Bourne, the Prince of Wales and other distinguished mourners went in procession from the Cathedral.—(Australian Press Association. —United Service.)