The enormous demand for flowers for wreaths and floral decorations for the late Dr, Stresemann's funeral resulted in a dearth of green plants and white flowers, especially white lilies, Telegraphic orders were placed with other places and coun tries and aeroplanes were employed expressly to carry fresh supplies of flowers, palm-leaves and lauveleaves from the south of France and Italy to Germany.
The wreath dedicated by the inch Premier, which was exhibit the show-window of " Berlin forist together with that of the: Diplomatic Corps, both of which were most costly works of art, attracted the attention of the public to such an extent that the traffic police was obliged to interfere in order to prevent a traffic congestion, The congress of the People's Party scheduled to take place at Mannheim, has been postponed owing to thi death of Dv. Stresemann who was the Party's Chairman, and the fiiness of Dr. Scholz, the leader of the Party's Council. "Dr, Scholz ha: Just undergone a dangerous operation which he, however, has successfully passed so that his pi Dr. Seholz's early At the conclusion of the address the coffin covered with the colours of the Reich was carried by offcia' of the Foreign Office who acted as pall-bearers out into the open and placed on the raised platform erected in front of the Reichstag buld-ing where it rested high above the heads of the thousands of people who in deep silence with heads uncovered listened to the address in which the Vice-Speaker of the Reichstag, Herr von Karfork, the last words of farewell to his dead colleague and friend. During the ceremony aeroplanes decorated with long black streamers circled overhead and contributed to the solemnity of the ceremony which by its simplicity and the genuine grief displayed by the vast masses of silent and orderly people, represent ing all walks of life, was a most impressive one, Procession to Cemetery, Led by a squad of mounted police and to the sound of muffled drums, the cortege started on its way the place of interment, Immediately. behind the hearse followed Reichs-President yon Hindenburg accompanied by the two sons of the deceased and followed by the members of the Cabinet and by the Diplomatic Corps. When the funeral corrige passed the Foreign Office building, it stopped for two minutes in front of the black-draped and wide-open windows of the late Dr. Stresemann's study. Here the Reichs-President took leave from the family of the deceased and entered his official residence which is situated next door to the Foreign
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