Burial of unknown warrior

LONDON: Final arrangements have been made for the burial of an unknown warrior at Westminster Abbey. Lord Curzon states that the Government is satisfied that the precautions taken are ample to maintain that the identity will be unknown to anyone. It has been decided to make the ceremony entirely domestic, hence the allies will not participate. But as the French desire to take part the French destroyer Verdun has been selected to convey the body to England, as a compliment to France. The coffin will

be inscribed: “A British warrior who fell in the Great War, 191418, for King and Country.’’ It is not even known if the body will be that of an Englishman or a dominion soldier. Besides representatives of all services, detachments of the mercantile marine men who saw service will participate in the procession. The pallbearers will be Admiral Meux, Lord Beatty, Sir Henry B. Jackson, Admirals Sturdee, Sir Charles Madden, Lord French, Lord Haig, Lord Methuen, Sir Henry Wilson, Sir Robert Horne, General Byng and Majorgeneral Sir Hugh Trenchard. When the procession reaches the Cenotaph in Whitehall the gun carriage will halt before the King. The Primate and the Bishop of

London will conduct the service at which massed choirs will assist. The King will unveil the Cenotaph as Big Ben chimes the last stroke of 11. At the expiration of 2 minutes the procession will be reformed, the King marching to the Abbey immediately behind the coffin, followed by the Prince of Wales

and the other Princes, the Prime Minister and other Ministers.