Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 February 1952 — Page 6

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1 i !" By LAURENCE MEREDITH" ae y i wi United Press Staff Correspondent } i LONDON, Febas15-—Residents 3 of the British Commonwealth and Empire, from coral islets of the South Pacific to the snowbound Canadian prairies, paid final "tribute today to King George VI, * They paused from their duties

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to bow their heads in silent ¥ & a» prayer. They attended services in ig 48 J ry Pent cathedrals, synagogues, Indian IR 4M temples and mosques. . lb al H n , Even in war-torn Malaya, '. where Commonwealth troops

have been locked in combat with Communist guerrillas, the fighting halted while the soldiers and FS Malayan police stood in silent Lg homage to the late monarch. s In Singgpore, which fell to the Japanese just 10 years ago today, cathedrals and temples were crowded with mourners, All traffic halted at noon as Europeans, Eurasians, Chinese, Malays and dozens of others stood in tribute, Crowds Fell Silent At Kuala Lumpur 3000 Malayan railway shop workers staged a sitdown strike because they were not given a holiday to mourn the King. In London itself---heart of the vast Empire-~crowds in Picccadilly Circus fell silent at 2 p. m. (9 a. m. EST). All traffic halted as guns boomed in the distance. On tiny Macquarie Island in southern Antarctica, one of the loneliest and most remote outposts of the Empire, three mems= bers of an Australian expedition paid a tribute too. As a gale . drove sleet and powdered snow over their bared heads they clustered around their flagpole with its ensign at half-mast. The first to pay tribute in the day of national mourning was the Commonwealth's only other route of the procession. reigning ' queen, six-foot-three-, : inch Queen Salote of the Tonga the radio and the playing of “God|/other government Islands in the South Pacific. At-|Save the Queen.” tended by all of the members of | In New Zealand weeping citizens 00a Cathedral Church of the| volces in lamentation. -

her royal family, she went to a knelt or stood in silent prayer memorial sérvice at St. Paul's| Wherever they were as the bells Redemption. In front of the

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catafalque covered with the Union|/from 10,000 minarets. In Kara-|

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All traffic halted in Australia’s bustling cities at noon. The only India they prayed at temples and] Twenty-one guns boomed out ahalted as guns boomed a salute.

sound across the nation was the wore mourning garlands. Prime|last salute from the red stone The people were clad in white soft notes of the last post on Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and|ancient fort of Delhi. In many|for mourning.

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LEAVING WESTMINSTER—General view of the funeral cortege of King George VI as it left Westminster Hall today for Paddington Station, to be taken by train 21 miles to the church at Windsor Castle for burial. Nearly 2,000,000 silent persons lined the

In the African jungles, drums tended a requiem mass at the ash-smeared, sadus raised their beat out the call to mourning, first-in Kenya, then in TanganIn neighboring Pakistan mul- yika, Uganda and across to the

Anglican Church at the capital|tolled out the King's 58 years of|altar draped in royal purple was ajlahs called the nation to prayer 8reat west Atpioen Solomes, a B uez an

In the great subcontinent of|Jack and the Indian tricolor. |chi and other major cities traffic Zone, British troops attended me-|

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morial services in desert camps and airfields. In, Ismailia the British commander, Lt. Gen. Sir George Erskine, read the. lesson to troops jammed into a foot-| ball stadium. | In Cairo the British community attended memorial services in the Anglican All Saints Cathedral on the banks of the Nile. Egyptian Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha attended, along with many other leading government personalities. «

In Malta church bells tolled through the morning and fortress guns echoed across the Grand | Harbor at Valletta. Ireland, which broke with the crown in 1949, forgot its former bitterness and flew flags at halfstaff in Dublin. The Irish Fadio|

observed two minutes of silence with Britain. Special memorial services were | held in Hong Kong, where Boom |

ing guns brought traffic to a| stop. Memorial services also were]

held in various European cities. U. 8S. Adm. Robert B. commander of Allied forces in| Southern Europe, attended serv-| ices at Naples: A similar service was held in the Anglican All Saints Church in Rome. In Pusan, Korea, nearly 200 Korean and foreign officials at-| tended a memorial rite.

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