GERMANS’ FUNERAL
THOI SAM) 5* AT( Hl\G RI -lx . >|-- AIR RAIDS The Edinburgh Evening News mad« J I ho following comment on the funeral | of two Nazi airmen killed in the rain | on the Firth of Forth: “Everyone in his or her heart pays a tribute I brave men. nut. in days like these iet it iesi there. What happened yesterday afternoon? Large crowds, est-. I mated in thousands, lined the funeral procession route or were at tho [cemetery. Was that in accordant'iwith the desires of the Government. I anxious about such large assemblage . [and more anxious because of tho lad [that Edinburgh had two air-raid warnI ings yesterday ? | “Who was to guarantee this crowd 'immunity yesterday afternoon? Wr suggest to those in authority that in future all such funerals should be conducted with all reverence and reaped, but tiial here should be no ptior piiblicti.v whatever. Unfortunately in the terrible struggle into which \.e haw entered there will bo only too abundant opportunity for sorrowing; but let us honour the b.ave dead quietly and >ct protect ou. people against any serious risk to wiiich this city has already been subjected."
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 3
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191GERMANS’ FUNERAL Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 3
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