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A SHAKESPEAREAN SENSATION.
tomb when he edged up. He look- ed at the flowers for a few seconds, then hissed Impostor dad shied the card on the grave.
"Then he just swung round and Here Lies the Ghost of beat it out of the church."
Bacon."
GRAVE DESECRATED.
London, April 29. Shakespeare's tomb was desecrat- ed to-day In a manner that has shocked the population of Stratford- representatives of seventy-five na- tions were tousting his immortal memory at the Shakespeare Birth day Festival celebrations.
on-Avon at the same moment as the
The Incident occurred after the national representatives and towns folk had marched in solemn pro- cession to the parish church and had lald their wreaths and postes of flowers on the poet's tomb, which in situated in the chancel of the church...
"Despicable" Action, When I called at the church later this afternoon the card was etill lying on the top of the flowers, but had been moved to one side, writes a Daily Express correspondent.
Flags of 75 Nations. At noon they assembled, repre sentatives of seventy-five nations, and stood by the seventy-five flag- polos, erected in Bridge Street. Pilgrims who had come from, all the capitals of the world stood here. The languages of East and West Alled the air.
But there was one word every man could understand, one word pronounced with an Amazing
"Shakespeare."
An official of the festival com-{ variety of accent and intonation, mittee told me that he considered but one word which belonged to the action was an insult not only to all languages and to all things: the dead poet, but also to the town and the distinguished visitors who had come to pay homage to Shakespeare's memory.
There was silence as the clock struck noon. The grey skies of an English Apríl hung overhead, "The person who perpetrated this threatening rain. A chilly breezo despicable, action," he said: "la blew as the last stroke of the evidently a believer in the Baconian clock faded away; the band play- theory, but that is no excuse fored.
deserating the tomb of the world's A silence, and the Union Jack greatest poet on his birthday." broke from the flagpole and flut. This incident, however, occurring tered in the breeze. A moment, in the afternoon, was not allowed and on seventy-four other poles to mar the birthday celebrations,
the flags of the nations of the The foreign Ministers and com- Stratford-on-Avon, was;-to-day | world broke into a riot of colours. misioners, eminent actors, play-the town of remembrance Rose- This was no national celebra- wrights and producers had left themary and daffodils engarlanded It tion, no tribute from one nation: church and were attending the | East and West met here in a med- this was the homage of the world luncheon in Stratford Town Hall, Joy of Inaguages and the flags of to one of its greatest men, express- when a man entered the church with all nations fluttered gaily in the ed in pageantry. a large piece of cardboard tucked freshening breaze. under his armija
GULL BURIED BY A PLOUGH.
They came to-day from all parts Approaching the chancel he of the world Englishmen, French- contemptuously flung the card on men, Spaniarda, Americans, Japan- A farmer Was ploughing. the flower-strawn grave, where it ese, and Chinese. They came followed by a large flock of sea- lay face upwards disclosing the bearing sprigs of absemary in gulls, writes a correspondent of Inscriptions Here lies the their hands.
the Field from Christchurch Ghost of Francis Bacon.", It was for remembrance they (Hanta). Suddenly they all flew Mr. S. Montt, a visitor from bare those sprays, and it was for away. The ploughman could not Seattle, USA, who witnessed the honour they carried bouquets of understand why until he discover- incident, said that he was too dumb- flowers, golden yellow, daffodils, ed a seagull which had been part- founded to interfero,
enblems of an English spring, ly buried by the plough. He ✨- that they might lay them on the lesand the bird, which flow away altar of the ancient church of none the worse.“ I suppose the Stratford in tribute to one who rent of the flock had suspected a can never be forgotten.
trap.
-- “T think the man must have been mid,” he said, "untess ha la a Bacon Panatic.
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