The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-11-11
BRITISH EMPIRE
JOINS FRANCE IN
HONORING HEROES
Allied Nations Make Solemn
Celebration of Armistice Day.
Unknown Dead Are Accorded
Exalted Burial Crypts.
LONDON CEREMONY MARRIED
Pankhurst Force Violated the
Period of Silence.
Irish Fired Upon British Flag
in Dublin Parade.
LONDON CEREMONY MARRIED

London, Nov. 11.-Great Britain to-
day impressively honored her war
heroes by according a field marshaPs
funeral to an unknown British war
rior, who was buried in Westminster
Abbey, and unveiling a permanent
cenotaph in White Hall to the glort-
Gus dead"
Aside from members of the royal
family who included Queen Mary,
Queen Mother Alexandria and Queen
Maud of Norway. and a few officials,
the only witnesses to either cremony
were person who lost Relatives in the
great wa-.
King George Chief MOurner.
The soldier, name and regiment un-
known, was buried with the highest
funeral honors paid Britain's great
fighting men. King George was chlet
mourner; army officers of the highest
rank were pail bearers. and the high
est officers of the church assigned the
warriors body to it's final rest.
Officers from the army, navy and
air forces carried the casket from the
station, laid it upon the carriage and
draped the British flag across it. 1t
was the same flag that had been used
almost continuously at funerals in
Ypres.
Every Nation Represented.
Field Marshall Haig, General CAT
las of the marines, Admiral Beatty
and Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard
paced at the side of the carriage. I'm
mediately preceding the honor guard
was a huge massed band drawn from
many branches of the service.
Following the coffin were long lines
representing the fighting mn of all
the nations of the British empire.
The gun carriage halted shortly
after II o'clock at the cenotaph. the
monument to the glorious dead.
King George awaited it there. The
king unveiled the cenotaph as big
, Ben" tolled. AS the sound of the bell
died away. the crowd uncovered and
for two minutes stood in silence.
At Westminster Abbey there was
another halt and the casket was trans
ferred from the carriage to the altar,
where the archbishop of Canterbury
conducted the solemn funeral ritual.
AS the coffin finally was lowered
into its crypt, a battery of artillery in
the adjoining st. James park fired a
field marshal's salute of nineteen guns
the highest military honor accorded
anyone outside royal rank.
Pankhurst Offices [Laidcd.
The girl employees in the offices of
Sylvia Pankhurst's communistic pa
per, the Workers Dreadnought, in
Fleet street, were thrashed and the Of
fices upset just after IL o'clock today
by an angry mob.
The leaders of the party which
raided the offices alleged that during
the two minutes of solemn silence in
honor of the fallen dead, as provided
for in the Armistice day program,
some of the women in the office were
singing, dancing and banging tin
cans"
Women Thrashed Girls.
The indignant crowd in the street
oil ft7o fxrrn Mi, 11oI
passed and then a mob of men and
women. said to have been led by work
men, invaded the Dreadnought office
Papers were strewn about the place
and then the men stood aside while
the women invaders gave the girls in
the offices a sound trouncing. This
continued until the police arrived.
One of the girl employees later said
that the members of the publications.
office force who did not believe in the
tribute of silence continued busting
the office and made some noise but
did not think it could be heard in the
street
irish Fire on Paraders.
Belfast Nov. 11.-An Armistice da!
parade was broken up here today
when alleged Sim Feiners opend fire
on the flag bearers.
Shots were exchanged, wounding
number of persons on both sides. Po
lice and soldiers were rushed to th'
spot and the crowds disappeared.
Double Celebration in France.
Paris. Nov. 11.-France today cele
brated jointly the fiftieth anniversar,
OF the founding of the French repub
lie and the armistice which ended tn,
great war.
An unknown poilu. clad in colorles
and indistinguishable rags, was buried
with highest military honors as tn,
republics tribute to the plain fighting
men who perished in the fight agains
Germany.
To mark the anniversary of the re
pubic TIE heart of Gambetta, founde
OF third republic, was transported il
plain box to the pantheon for per
manent interment
The two ceremonies were united
There followed the burial of the reIi
OF the republics founder. Then tn,
crowds returned to the Arch of Tri
umph, where impressive services wer