Show BELGIAN KING BURIED AT A T IMPRESSIVE RITES AS THRONGS MOURN V Tho Thousands s Honor Memory of Dead Monarch at Services Lasting Eight Hours Hour Copyright 1934 Associated Press BRU BRUSSELS BRUSSEL SELS Feb 22 King 22 King Albert I was burl burled buried ed today in the the crypt of a little gray church near the royal castle at at Laeken He He was laid at rest beside the bodies of hi IDS his predecessors Leopold LeopoldI I I and It II after one of the most impressive funerals given a a. national leader eader in modern modem times Eight hours of military pro processions and and religious rites in two churches ended at 3 with the burial were with p.m.-with p. p m. m after a brief private benediction before before be be- fore the royal family Tens of thousands of ot persons took part in the processions and hund hundreds eds of ot thousands more witnessed the pageantry under heavily overcast skies One of the most spectacular scenes cenes of the day was a demonstration by detachments of the allies s and the Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian army in front of Li Laeken ken church There the troops drilled for the thelast last time before their king as his body lay outside the church They marched while b bells tolled unceasingly and guns guru boomed their salvos Visiting royalty princes and diplomats diplomats diplo diplo- mats witnessed sed the military maneuvers maneuvers maneu maneu- vers from irom a dais American Legion posts from Brussels and Jaris joined in the demonstration n with the other The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxem Luxembourg bourg a cousin of ot King Albert waS was the only woman of royalty to witness this review Queen Elizabeth Eliaabeth and her daughter- daughter In law in-law law the Princess Astrid who to- to Continued on Pare Pac 1901 KINGS KING'S FUNERAL I Sr ita-st List Cast Rites for Dead Belgian Rul Ruler Rute Continue for Eight A Hours f. f Continued from Pact Pigs one morrow morrow- will be queen of the Belgians Bel g gians attended the services in St St. Gudule cath cathedral draL Accompanied by bya a score of l ladles ladies dies court they took their places in inthe tie the choir choir of of the great church half halt an hour tour before the cortege arrived All AU r ere o heavily vetted veiled in black th that thIt it was wu impossible to distinguish th thir ir features at a distance of 20 feet Bugle Bugle ca calls and the simultaneous ringing of bells e l heralded the arrival c of cL the e cortege there Son sang Show Grief Preceded by y an impressive ive eccles ecclesiastical lactic l l company the cardinal in a 3 m miter r and scarlet robe entered fh church and took his throne tite ite the seats of the royal family The two princes sons ions of Albert fed cd ed the thofile file of ot kings princes and d am am- to the choir then came the Belgian ministers and deputies Crown Prince Leopold and his brother Prince Charles CharIes dressed in brown military uniforms with black bands on their arm arms and wearing white gloves sat together on their mothers mother left Apparently deeply moved the sl slender slender slen slen- m me der e Leopold clenched his teeth and moved h his lips nervously as the ser serice service vice ice started Through most of ot the ceremony h his head hung low He lIe will be enthroned tomorrow The stocky and more phlegmatic Ch Charles rles' rles app appeared ared more col collected Royalty Present O Only Y a a JeW lew feet ft from th thin them m were King Xing Boris of Bulgaria and President t Albert L Lebrun brun o France Frances FrancesOn On the thes a same me side nde of the he ch choir tr the princes and amb ambassadors sat In m two rows raw At Atthe the head bead ot of the of-the the first line was Boris Nearby iii in a a. a blue uniform was Prince Um Umberto her app heir apparent ent to o the Italian n throne and law brother law of Leopold The Prince of ot Wales tanned and W wearing a deep blue naval uniform w was wa's was s- s sat at the tt other end of ot the front line I Directly behl behind d him was the hand hand- some come young Prince Nicholas of Rumania Ru m mania nia representing his brother King Carol On the other aher side of the front of the choir were ministers Behind them hem were the bishops W War r veterans active soldiers soldier and lesser Yasser Belgian dignitaries filled th the transept nave In the center of ot the tr transept was a foot 20 U tiered three re catafalque wrapped in Belgian colors Here the bishops bishops' pra prayed praed ed at U the e close loe of the c cathedral thedral ceremony n Princes Prince and diplomats who wh walked t the cathedral rode to Laeken Lacken 1 1 in c carriages following the the wom women n. n Urn Urn- b berto Charles and Leopold rode rode- in I Ine one ne ne carriage followed wed by Boris Doris Wales Lebrun p I M Medieval Scene Seene Veterans Vetera s r resumed umed their march in the steep winding streets around the cathedral as the procession started to ic L Laeken It presented a curiously mixed modem mod mod- er em and medieval scene Th Their ir nun hun r di ds of flags seemed to tofit fit in A pic plc ture of ot medieval splendor but not their civilian clothes Line after line of ot brown uniformed I cavalry artillery and infantry units unIt pounded over the cobbled streets street after the veterans veterans' had passed Several women fainted or required I t tt treatment for hysteria hydera during the thc crush of the huge hUie crowd along the route A group of Americans participated I in the In-the the p processions They bore Amer Amer- Scan ican flags and the colors of ot American Ameri Amer can Legion posts Le Leopold to io Become King At Simple simpIe Ceremony BRUSSELS F Feb b. b 22 2 UP Bel UP Bel Belgium gl gium gitin will break liz its mourning fo for lor C King ICing Albert tomorrow while Crown Crowl Pr Leopold is made his successor r ra a a king without a crown a L scepter r era mra throne this little kingdom 5 is democratic and King Icing g Albert abandoned all tb the e trappings of ot mon monarchy Leopold will wUl ride on horseback Ii in ri procession r eulon from Irom his fathers father's tomb a at rit t L Laek Laeken n palace ilace to the house of parliament parlia perth I. I ment ht h in the enter center of the city He will win be escorted to an armchair arm armS hair chair oyer over which will be a canopy 1 in the Belgian colors in the chamber viii ere the upp upper r and lower r h houses uses wilt will b be in hi 1 joint Int session He Be will take this simple oath Cl ei swear to observe the tion and the law of the people of ot Bell Bel Bela glum gt l mand and to maintain the national in j. dependence c and territorial integrity Then proclaimed Leopold III III he Kill go fo th the TOyal royal palace h here re by a ro roundabout route so cc o that his people eople e him |