The Archive · 1922

Impressive Service at the Cathedral

The Cathedral was packed to the doors with mourners on Thursday. As carly as 3 p.m., an hour before the time svt for the service, people began to take their seats. The 16 rows of pews reserved for Officials were scarcely sufficient for the purpose: the rest of the Cathedral nothing like sufficed for the many who wished to hear the service and they overflowed into the porch and grounds. by many scores. All the Consulates were represented, the official members of the various staffs attending in uniform, the Consuls being: Mr. C. F. Garatin (Great Britain), Mr. T. van Haute (Belgium), Mr.. da Veige Menezes (Brazil), Major J. Hnizdo (Czecho-Slovakia), Mr. T. Raaschou (Denmark), Mr. A. Wilden (France), Com. G. Nob. de Rossi (Italy), Mr. Funatsu (Japan), Mr, ction prohibited without permission.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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