Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-02-03
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JEWELL TO
MARSHALL AIC
Mile Military
Pageant Traverses
Thronged Streets
OF London

LONDON, Feb. 3.-P-While all
England mourned and three sons OF
his king led the three-niile process
cions from St. Columba's TO West
minister Abbey, the body OF fieid
Marshal Haig today was borne
through the streets OF London in n
Of the greatest military pageants IN
the history CT the historic BRUSH
capital. !.
Ii was a pageant Of poignant
memories. The casket was wrapped
in a w~eather-worn Union Jack which
had served a similar function on
Cenotaph-Britain's memorial TO ner
hero dead. The body also was borne
on the q carriage on which had
been mou-tcd the gun which fired
Britain's first shot in the World
war. Ii was the same gun-carriage
too on which the body OF BritaiE's
unknown soldier was taken tendeffy
TO his last resting place.
Crowds Pay Tribq
Today. seveHl mounted ZEN drew
!, Mhs sls~,ylpa asasa easket
came into sigh and passed along the
thoroughfaresl
To the muffN music Of a military
band whose strains the field mar
shall had loved. the procession NOV.
ed through silent streets crowded
with tens of thousands OF men, wo-
men and children. There were
many weeping women and most OF
them wore black and carried little
punches Of red paper Flanders pop
pies ~symbolical of heroic sacrifice
and devotion.
There were numerous medalled
men along the line of march and
other veterans who had fought IN
France and Flanders fields under
Britain's great soldier. Many OF
them. carrying sad scars from the
b~attlefieids, made no effort 10 hide
their emotion.
Foch in Parade
Behind the casket were the pail
bearers chosen from among the
great leaders of the allied forces.
TT v were headed BY Marshal Foch,
generalissimo of the allied and as
ISOLATED armies in the war and
Marshal Petain, commander of the
French armies. Both wore the long
light blue coats of the French army
and their caps were of red and gold.
Lieutenant-Genera Baron de Cey-
ninck, representing the Belgian
army, came next with Field Marshall
Lord Methuen, despite his eighty
two years alert and firm of step,
marching with bowed head. The
plrmes on the hats of the field
marshals waved gently in a breeze
which at times was dampened by
mists and a suggestion of rain as
the long procession slowly made its
way to England's great abbey of re-
m~embrance-
Servant Marches
Two others of Marshal Haig's al
lies. those of the sea and the air,
Earl Beatty walked side by side,
while Sir Hugh Trenchard, in royal
air force blue, represented the flying
service.
Then came perhaps the most
touching spectacle of the procession
as seen By the public-Earl Haig's
batman. or devoted servant for near
ly thirty years, Sergeant Secret,
who was with the field marshall
when he died and walked sorrowful-
ly with bowed head in the wake Of
the gun carriage.
VI DAh 1SN@hGo SUNS N
in the sad procession: The Prince
of Wales, the Duke of York and
Prince Henry.
Services at Westminster
England began its final farewell
to her great field marshal who led
Britain's armies to victory in the
war, at a service in st. Columba's,
Earl Haig's own little church in
London, this morning, and again at
Westminster Abbey. But it was
mostly by the crowded thousands in
the streets that hte nation paid hom-
age to the msn who led the military
forces that saved il and whose body
now is on its way back to Scotland
for a simple burial among his ances-
tors.
The great military funeral pro-
eession. the like of which has not
been seen in London for generations,
preceded the main service at West
minister Abbey where the great men
and women Of the country assembled
TO honor Haig's memory and with
them the ENJOYS of all nations in
GLIDING Alanson B. H0ugton, Ameri-
can ambassador in London, repre-
senting the United States.