"...An open mahogany coffin laid on the raised platform.The long gueue of people who filed past paying their last respects to the farewells silently before returning slowly to their seats.Everybody was weeping as expected at adignified military ceremony...The woman who laid amongst the flowers of all colours on the catafalgue looked more like a Hollywood star than a soldier. This officer in the uniform of a lieutenant colonel was a Turk..."