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Show 'cremation of editor's body i solemn event BOMBAY, Aug. 2. Solemn services were held late yesterday yester-day afternoon over the body of Gangadhar Tilak, nationalist : leader and emtor of the news-, news-, j paper Mahratta, of Poona. who j . died yesterday morning. In the I presence of an enormous crowd the body was placed on a fu- j ' neral pyre erected on the sea beach at Poona and was burned. This is the first cremation in In- j dia in the memory of the present pres-ent generation. In order that all might see j the body prior to cremation, it ; was placed in a sitting posture on p, hotel veranda. |