Premier Jan Malypetr, members of the cabinet of Czechoslovakia, the parliamentary presidium, a special representative of President Thomas G. Masaryk, and scores of representatives of the Czechoslovakian press were present today at the impressive funeral accorded Marus Bloch, Jewish press chief of the government.
Government representatives eulogized the dead official as one of the most faithful servants of the government.
Mr. Bloch was chief of the press department of the Czechoslovakian Ministerial department and was well known in journalistic circles in Praha. He was seventy-four years old.
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