VICTIMS OF L55.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17502, 8 September 1928, Page 7

VICTIMS OF L 55.

INTERRED AT PORTSMOUTH. IMPRESSIVE, MOVING SCENES. ALL HONOURS RECORDED. (Bv Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Official Wireless.) (Rec. September 8, 1i.3 a.m.) RUGBY, September 7. There were impressive and moving scenes at Haslar Cemetery, Portsmouth to-dav when with full naval honour.-? the remains of 4 2 officers and men of the British submarine L 55, which was sunk in the Baltic nine years ago, were interred. 1 _ . Gun carriages and motor lorries carried the coffins and wreaths and behind the principal mourners, (the widows, fathers and mothers of the victims), were representatives of the Navy, Army and Air Force and naval attaches of France, Italy, United States, Argentine, Peru, Japan and Esthonia. The admiralty representative was Vice-Admiral Haggard, Fourth Sea Lord. There were over 1000 officers and men in the procession. Owing to the impossibility of individuals being idonliOed, no name was engraved on any one of the coffins. Tribute to tire Russians. Captain Bearing, of the merchant steamer Truro, which brought the bodies from Kronstadt to Reval, in an interview with a press representative, spoke highly of the attitude of the Russian authorities in connection with the embarkation of the bodies. Ho says: "Not, though the bodies had been their own, could ihe Russians have paid them greater honour and courtesy. It was a remarkable tribute to the tradition of the sea in honouring the gallant dead irrespective of the nation to which they belong.”