New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 13, 1916, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBEK 13, AVIATI]RSFUNERAL British Empzre at War Will Be Run TOUCHING SCENE Y% By Five Men, Lloyd George at Head | Lient. Wintgen Paid Last Honors Behind Firing Line 1910. (Correspondence of the Asso. Press.) St. Quentin, France, Oct, 31——While fellow airmen wheeled their machines overhead and dropped wreaths of «flowers upon his coffin, Lieutenant ‘Wintgen, next to Capt. Boelke the most successful German aviator in the west and chief competitor of the 1l-fated First Licutenant Immelmann, was borne to his last resting place. He had been killed in an air battle late in September. Lieutenant Wintgen’s burial was bne of the most dramatic episodes in the history of the little French city, which has had its fill of the kind of drama that the war brings. It was at- tended by almost every military per- son quarteredsin St. Quentin, and by A special wish of the dead flier, who had asked that in case he fell he should be buried as near as possible 1o the scene of his death. After a heart-rending service in the little evangelical church here, Wint- &en's body, in a black and white cof- fin smothered in floral offerin placed on a gun carriage and to the cemetery. Behind the coffin walked three fellow aviators who with Wintgen have won the coveted order Pour le Merite—Baron Althaus, First Lieutenant Buddek flying for the Tur Lieutenant Frankl, § At the head of the funeral proces- sion marched an honor company. Near the coffin was Wintgen’s closest friend, the flier Lieutenant Hochn- dorf, who was the only witness to Wintgen's death, and who carried the luany orders that had been conferred on the famous aviator since the be- . girning of the war. Rt In the procession behind the gun | garriage were representatives of the , Concentrating direction of the Brit- commanding general, and hundreds | ish end of the war in hands of five Of representatives of the various flying men—Premier Lloyd George, Lord corps of the many German armies, all President of the Council Earl Curzon of whom had known and appreciated (to be government leader in the Wintgen and his exceptional ability as house of lords), Chancellor of the Fx- BD aviator. | chequer Andrew Bonar Law (to be At the cemetery, while a comrade government leader. in the house of post being viceroy of India, where he of the dead lieutenant spoke a few commons), Arthur Henderson and served during 1879-1905. Prior to this final words, two aviator friends of the Lord Milner (the last two ministers he had been undersecretary of state deceased who had followed the funer- | without folio)==places far more pow- for-India and later for foreign aff: on in their aeroplanes, let .er in the hands‘of the prime winister He has heen lord of the privy s ines volpiane to within a than the British governmental system TRngland since 1915, Since ‘the be- ghort distance of the ground and let has ever ‘known before. Mr. Lloyd sginning of the war he has been ac- fall floral wreaths, and' then opened George’s proposals to Premier Asquith tive in the reeruiting campaign. He THE RIGHT KIND CF A GIFT FOR A BOY MODEL BUILDER The only construction toy with girders like real structural steel. The electric motor, FREE with most sets, runs many of the models— Builds skyscrapers with elevators, bridges with cars, saw mills, derricks, etc. PRICE $1.00 "° $7.50 Ferris Wheels, Flying Machines. greatest fun in the world. 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Press.) sol- (Correspondence of the Ford Vaux, Dec. 2.—French | diers have withstood the awful rigor: privations of the fighting during wet fall in the sector around Ver- dun_with notably little sickness. The larmy doctor in ¢ ¢ of a division Secretary | {o1q The Associated Pr correspond- ! ent the number of sick in many of the | battalions was as low as four per | thousand. 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