The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-11-12
suarie OF Fort Douaumont, where a
chapel 10 being erected.

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chapel 10 being erected.
Speech BY MiiIerand.
At $50 o'clock the procession
Millerand made a short address. It
then continued down boulevard St.
Mfcheal and boulevard st. George,
crossing the Seine by the chamber Of
deputies bridge. 1t circled Place De
La Concorde, passing the statues Of
Lille and Strusburg, and proceeded up
the Champs ,Elysees. II reached the
Arc De -Triumphe at noon.
Silent Prayer For Dead.
London, November 11.-Great Brit.
ain today impressively honored her
war heroes by according a field
inarshaps funeral TO an unknown
British warrior, who was buried In
Westminster Abbey, and unveilinx
permanent Cenotaph In whitehall,
to the glorious dead" Aside from
members Of the royal family, who in
cluded Queen Mary. Queen Mother
A Alexandria AND Queen Maud Of Nor.
way and a Few officials, the only
persons who lost relatives In the
great war.
AS big Ben" the great clock in
the tower Of Parliament building be.
gan to strike the hour eleven, King
George. facing the sixteenth century
coffin of the unknown soldier, which
was resting on q gun carriage. drew
g cord that released the Union Jack,
draped about the Cenotaph, and after
the last stroke OF the hour thousands
or people who crowded whitehall as
far as one could see in either direc.
ton remained silent for two minutes.
This silence was broken by q choir
softly beginning the hymn "Oh God,
Our Help In Ages. Past" which was
followed by the Lords Prayer, re.
citing by the Archbishop OF Cantef-
bury Buglers sounded "the last post"
and. with its escort of troops and a
band, the gun carriage then moved
toward the Abbey with King George,
accompanied by the royal princes.
Mothers See Ceremony.
During the brief services in the 4
Nave OF the Abbey, the King stood at |
the foot of the grave, the royal >ladiesf
and princes ranging themselves Oh |
in either side. or all the witnesses
that packed whitehall or crowded |
the Abbey, a little band of approx.
mately one hundred women In the
Abbey received the most reverend at. /
tention. They had been selected for
the seats of honor because each had /
lost her husband and all her sons l
Every woman in England SO bereft,
who appealed for a place got II, but /
less than half the other applicants for
seats were successful, owing to the |
lack of space
After the one hundred had been
seated the next to be considered were
those mothers who lost their only |
sons, or all their sons, and then come |
women who lost their husbands only. |
They were given positions in accord.
ance with the price they had paid |
during the war.
A girl wrote she had lost nine
brothers killed or missing, was given
a ticket, as also, was twelve year old
boy who wrote "the man in the coffin
might be my daddy&
In all 5000 tickets were issued.
Escort OF Battleships.
The body of the unknown soldier
Arrived here lest night, after II had
other military officers at the time
1t was exhumed, under the escort
Of French destroyers. They turned
for home, after seeing the English
destroyer Verdun, which bore the
body safely into the harbor of Dover.
It was brought to London in the same
u
the bodies OF Edith Cavell the nurse,
who was executed by the Germans,
and Captain Charles Fryatt, the Hrit.
ish captain OF a British merchant
steamer, who also met death before
a German firing squad.
II. lay last night In q room espe-
cialy set apart and fitted for 1t in
Victoria station, and A. Guard of
honor remained there until morning.
Veterans In Guard.
The. immediate guard. which es.
corted the body on its trio through
the crowded and silent streets from
the station to whitehall was cone
posed of one hundred men of all
services, who won, the Victoria Cross.
The pail hearers swere followed by
admirals Of the fleet, including Wis
count Douglas Haig. Earl Beatty, ad-
miral Of the Grande Fleet and Major
General Sir Hugh Trenchard. com.
nander OF the British afr forces |
bands and few OFFICIALS made up the
balance of the escort.
The cortege proceeded through |
Grosvenor Gardens and Grosvenor
Place to Hyde Park and thence to
Buckingham Palace, Pail Mall and
White Hall. AS the procession
started from the station, Q battery in
Hyde Park, fred field marsheA's
salute Of nineteen guns and Just Vas
the coffin was lowered into the !,
grave another battalion of soldiers !
fired the same salute.
Flag over Coffin. Il
The grave was filed with soil
brought from the grave from which |
the body was exhuhsed in France, |
and was covered by what Is known
as the Padres Flag" one of the
most famous flags figuring in the re-
cent war. 1t was taken to France
na rlY in the sfrI1qqla nv a Rhanlain