The necessarily protracted funeral of Lord Haig haS been wonderfully
impressive in its mingling of stateliness with affectionate sorrow. First let us thank Marechals Foch and Petain for their presence and France who sent them to show her sympathy ; and Belgium for her representation by General Baron de Ceuninck. London's part, as arranged by the War Office, was a British, Imperial and Inter-Allied military and religious ceremony, in 'which the ex-soldiers and the civilians had the fullest Opportunity of taking their share as the procession Passed from St. Columba's Church, where Lord Haig wor- shipped in London, to Westminster Abbey, and thence to the railway station. The arrival in the capital of his native country at midnight and the passage over the snow to St. Giles's Cathedral, amid the silence of the crowds of Edinburgh citizens and the wailing of the pipes, had an impressiveness of its own in contrast to the less romantic pomp of the morning in London. Thousands of people passed through St. Giles's before Tuesday, when the burial took place in an aisle of Dryburgh Abbey by the banks of the Tweed.
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