The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1921-09-07
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was further represented by detach
ments from the Howden airship base
and the battleship Utah.
Send Representatives.
Members of the British cabinet were
out of the city attending the meeting
of the cabinet council at Inverness
but they sent representatives to the
service
The Lord Mayors of London and
Bull, the mayors of Westminster and
Bedford, the high commissioners for
the British dominions of their repre-
sentativeS were also in attendance.
The Rev. H. d. L. Vener, chaplain
in-chief of the Royal Air froces, de-
livered a short address in which he
referred to the association between the
air forces of England and America, "in
developing once-formidable engine
of destruction into a pioneer of closer
relations between the two nations they
represent"
Describes Collapse.
He then describes in a few terse
sentences the sudden collapse of the
ZR-2 which cost SO many gallant
lives.
The price of progress and the toll
Of science" he added ARE bitter en-
ough. Yet thank God there never is
a lack of splendid men ready to do
and to dare. It is best so. To be. in
the forefront of the fight to conquer
what half a generation ago was an
untried field will ever appeal to our
! splendid manhood"
| A feature of the choral service was
the magnificent rendering of the
/ t'RQttla hVr1n nf "a panIh1ipN nd
The Star Spangled Banner
| WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. - The
| American dead of the ZR-2 disaster
will arrive at New York Sept Is or
! II, aboard the British cruiser Daunt-
! less, and on arrival memorial services
will be held at the dock, Secretary
| DENLY announced today after a con-
ference of department officials called
| to arrange fitting reception for the
! bodies.
The Dauntless, which was scheduled
| to sail today from Davenport. Eng.
land, will under the arrangements
made be escorted into New York har.
Dor by destroyers and aircraft. She
will dock at the Brooklyn navy yards
where at p. m, Sept II memorial
| SSINlCeS VIII De u6lu.
Relatives of Il of the 16 dead have
requested that burial take place in
their respective home towns, and this
is considered to preclude any official
funeral at Arlington, such as had been
/ proposed.
The bodies of Comm Louis Max
field, of st. Paul, Lieut.. Comm. Val
entine N. Bigg, of Bryn Mawr. Pa.
/ and Chief Machinist's Mate George
| Welch. of Elgin, H., alone will be in
tered at Arlington.
The body of Lieut. Comm. Emory
Coyl, of Marietta, O., will by request
be buried at sea, while the Dauntless
is en- route to the United States.
| PLYMOUTH, England, Sept. L
The British war ship. Dauntless, slow
ly steamed out of Plymouth Harbol
this afternoon with the bodies of Com
mander Louis H Maxfield, and IA o
his fellow officers and men, who los
their lives in the disaster which befel
the ZR-2 at Hull two weeks ago.
AS the funeral ship started on it!
voyage to New York the guns of tn,
outer harbor Notifications bombed
farewell in honor of the Americans
who few weeks ago were anticipat
ing a return home aboard the nev
American Aerial Goliath
, The bodies of only IA will reach tn
, United States, however, as the wish o
) Commander Emory Coyl to be burie,
at sea will be complied with.
:, The body of the 10th American vic
! tim, that of John T Hancock, will b
: buried in London. He was born i
England and his parents are resident
of London