GENERAL SIKORSKI LAID TO REST AT NEWARK

Newark, Notts, will long remember the funeral of General Sikorski. Famous national figures filled Holy Trinity Church, where Bishop Joseph Gawlina celebrated the Requiem Mass with a member of the Polish Government, l'r. Zygmunt Kacynski as deacon and a Polish Air Force chaplain as subdeacon. In the gallery was a choir of Polish Army officers. The Vicar Capitular of Nottingham, the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Charles Payne, was in the sanctuary, and the Administrator of St. Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham, the Rev. Fr. Edward Ellis, acted as MC.
Bishop Gawlina delivered a panegyric in Polish from the altar steps at the Mass and afterwards gave the Absolutions at the graveside, where orations over the coffin were delivered by the Polish Prime Minister, M. Mikolajczyk, the President of the Council, Professor Grabski and the New Commander-in-Chief, General Sosnkowski.
There was a military as well as a religious ceremony at the Polish Air Force cemetery where General Sikorski's body has been placed in a brick vault immediately in front of the Polish Air Force Cross which Bishop Gawlina had blessed and unveiled in General Sikorski's presence exactly two years to the day before the day he returned to bury him in the mune spot.
After the war the body is to be taken to Cracow.
Polish and British National Anthems were played in St. Barnabas Cathedral
by a Polish Army band on Saturday, when the Vicar-Capitular, Mgr. Charles Payne, celebrated a Requiem Mass for General Sikorski. H.M. the King was officially represented at this service by the Duke of Portland, Lord-Lieutenant of Notts.
The Plymouth Anglo-Polish Society arranged a Requiem for General Sikorski in Plymouth Cathedral on Thursday of last week, when Fr, H. Josko was the celebrant, and Fr. J. Delany, naval chaplain, who has been closely associated with members of the Polish Navy, was the special preacher.
Mgr. Charles Payne, Vicar Capituiar of Nottingham, celebrated a " Month's Mind " Mass for the late Bishop of Nottingham, the Rt. Rev. John McNulty, in St. Barnabas' Cathedral, Nottingham, on Tuesday. A choir of priests was in attendance.