Fifteen of the 17 life-boatmen of Rye Harbour who were drowned last Thursday were buried in one big grave in the churchyard of their home village today. The bodies of the other two have not yet been found. An enormous crowd attend-fed the funeral, Men of the British Eon) cog the Legion dug the grave
beware tail tsSoatanans ind played funeral marches.
Because of the press of the public the service was held in the graveyard and not in the church. The crews of many other life-boats around the coast were present. Nearly every family in the little hamlet of Rye Harbour had lost someone in the disaster and the scenes at the graveside were pathet'e in the extreme.
A representative of the Board of Trade stated in the House gf Commons today that his department had decided to hold an inquiry into all the circumstances of the aster. The would cover certain allegations that had been made regarding defects in the Hfebelts worm by the dead life-boatmen,
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