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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 51, 18 April 1884, Page 11

The funeral of Herr Lasker, at Berlin, shows what his countrymen thought of the man whom Bismarck tries to insult in his grave. The synagogue in which the service was celebrated was densely crowded. No member of the present Ministiy was present, but three ex-Ministers attended. The whole Municipal Council was present, headed by the biirgermeister. Tue presidents and vice-presidents of the Reichstag and Landtag, with all the Liberal deputies, and many from other parties, notably Lasker's old opponent in many a struggle, Herr Windthorst, the great Catholic leader, were also present. Mr. Sargent, the American Minister, placed a wreath on the coffin. No such demonstration, it is said, has taken place in Berlin since the funerals of Alexander Von Humboldt and the Deputy Waldeck, the so-called " citizen king." Twenty thousand persons joined in the procession,-- Pilot,