The Archive · 1928

Dead Aviator Going Back to Mexico

Military Honours in Progress Through New York New York, July 19.

Ten thousand troops escorted the coffin of Emilio Carranza, the Mexican flying ace whose body was found in a wood at Mount Holly, New 'Jersey, into which he fell while on a non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field to Mexico City, down Broadway to the station, whence a specia} train is conveying it to Mexico City, A score of aeroplanes circled and' dipped overhead, while many marks of respect were shown by the crowd along the route.

There is considerable sympa with Mexico over her double of Obregon and Carranza, who direct descendant of ancther murdered Mexican President—Reuter.

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