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TRIBUTE PAID BY MASSES TO KING ALBERT
Long Line of Mourners Files by Open Bier at Belgian Palace
U. S. ENVOY CHOSEN TO ATTEND RITES

By SAMUEL DASHIELL United Press Staff Correspondent

BRUSSELS, Feb. 21.—(UP). All through the night, subjects of King Albert I, killed while mountain climbing, filed solemnly past his bier in the royal palace here to pay final personal tribute to the dead monarch.

The sympathy of Queen Elizabeth, widow of the king, caused the doors of the castle to remain open and permit tens of thousands of mourners to pass thru the candle-lit chapelle ardente, where the body of the ruler lay in quiet state awaiting burial.

The ceaseless trudge of countless shuffling feet which began early Tuesday continued all the night to sound a muffled, funeral dirge as the Belgians paid emotional farewell to the man who had ruled them through the war and troubled years since 1909.

The queen, Crown Prince Leopold, who is to become King Leopold III on Friday, and other members of the royal family with characteristic generosity and sympathy for their subjects, sacrificed their own hours of vigil by the bier to allow thousands of their neighbors, from the highest to the most humble, to be rewarded for their long wait outside the palace, by a last glimpse of the bandage-crowned face of the ruler.

After midnight, most of the mourners who filed in and out of the chapel in two silent black lines of weeping humanity were chiefly from the poorer classes.

Women held their wooden shoes in their hands on entering the silent palace.

Palace guards kept the lines moving past the classic facade of the palace, in through the grilled gateway and, after a brief glimpse of the face on their monarch, on out in a second, retreating line to the street.

AMBASSADOR MORRIS U. S. ENVOY TO RITES

BRUSSELS, Feb. 21. (UP).— President Roosevelt has named U. S. Ambassador Dave Hennen Morris as the United States special envoy to the funeral of Albert I on Thursday, it was learned at the embassy yesterday. He will be accompanied by the entire embassy staff.

The British delegation is to be headed by the Prince of Wales representing King George V, of England. The prince will be accompanied by an impressive delegation, including Field Marshal Lord Allenby, representing the army; Air Marshal Sir John Salmond, representing the royal air force; Lieut.-Gen. Sir Tom Bridges, who served for a time in the war as head of the British military mission with the Belgian army; seven officers, 100 men and the band of the black dragoon guards regiment; and 100 men of the royal navy. Sir Godfrey Thomas, private secretary to the Prince of Wales, will also attend.
Succeeds Father as Belgian King
Here is a striking study of Crown Prince Leopold, who becomes King of the Belgians. A hero in the eyes of his countrymen since enlisting in his father's army at the age of 13, the Prince is well known in the United States, having visited here in 1919.