ARMISTICE DAY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18229, 13 November 1924, Page 6

ARMISTICE DAY.

CROWDS IN LONDON.

SCENE AT THE CENOTAPH. UNKNOWN WARRIOR'S TOMB PILED HIGH WITH FLOWERS. UUSTXJIIJAX iKO X-S. CAXUC ASOOCXXZZOK.) (Br cable—Tßß33 association—ccriaioar; (Received Novombor 12th, 0.0 p.mJ LOXDOX, Normbr 11. On Armistice morning tho environs of the Cenotaph wcro densely packed long before tho King's visit". A noteworthy feature was the countless wreaths brought by women and children, tho earliest of which was an elderly woman who left a Bumble posy at five o'clock in the morning.

Tho King, tho Prince of Wales, and the Duke of York entered tho military hollow squaro shortly before clweu o'clock and deposited magnificent wreaths. All the Agents-General did likewise.

A Hyde Park gun boomed the signal for the two minutes' silence.

Afterwards tho Bishop of Jjondon held a service at the Cenotaph. There was a special service at the Abbey, where tho Unknown Warrior'a tomb was piled high with wreaths.

3>uring tho remainder of tho day there was a huge salo of Fiaudcrs peppics on behalf of the 700,000 unemployed ex-servicemen, also war widows and orphans.

LONDON STOOD STILL.

RECORD CROWD AT CENOTAPH.

(skitter's TELBOKAU3.) LONDON, November 11. Armistice Day was celebrated in fine weather. Tho great silence was most impressive, millions standing barebeaded for two minutes. All traflSo ceased. The crowd at tho Conotaph was a record. The packed mass extended from Trafalgar square to the Old Palace yard. j

Warm sunshine, Unusual for November, lit up splashes of colour, in which the whitos of the wreaths and the reds of the Flanders • poppies were prominent. The Cenotaph stopd out in tho clear air amid a rectangle of troops and ex-service men, with tho masßed bands of the Guards.

Tho Queen watched the ceremony from a window in a Government office.

Popular indignation was manifested clearly in two cases in . London in which men did not observe the Armistice silence. One offender was noticed walking along the Strand with his hat on, while everyone else stood : stock still, bareheaded, and everything was stationary. As soon as the trumpets' announced the end of tho silence, a rush was made for the man,, who was severely handled before being rescued by the police. In the other case, near the Bank of England, ;blie crowd in due course badly mauled an offender, who. took refuge in a shop which had to be protected by a cordon of police..

ALL OVER THE WORLD.

PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN PRANCE.

LONDON, November 11,

Traffic was held up for two hours in Dublin" owing to enormous crowds participating in v the Armistice Ifciy celebrations.

World-wide celebrations have been recorded.

A public holiday was observed in France, whero the shops were closed and the streets beflagged. The chief cerepioay was as the tomb of the Unknown, Soldier, where Marshal Foch deposited a wreath of palms. M. Herriot deposited a wreath of flowers on the memorial tablet to the British fallen in the Cathedral of Notre Dame;

UNION JACK RUN UP.

DEMONSTRATION IN DUBLIN.

(SroNEr "Sun ' Sea vies.)

LONDON, November 11. Thero was an astonishing Armistice Day demonstration in Dublin. Despite the order of the Police Commissioner, General Murphy, forbidding the Armistico silence as it would interrupt , the trams and traffic, at Collego Green crowds of ex-service men, eivil servants, and their supporters, wearing Flanders poppies, and beaded by bands, defiantly occupied the Green and overflowed into the side streets rendering the police impotent. The Union Jack replaced the tricolour on the Bank of Ireland and crowds placed wreaths on the Celtic Cross in commemoration of tho fallen.

AMERICA REMEMBERS.

A SIMPLE CEREMONY.

(Received* November 12th, 8.10 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, November 11

The nation observed; Armistice Day Numerous parades wero held, and a two minutes' silence prevailed, during which &ca-gorag ships and all industrial pursuits halted. President Coolidge participated in a .simple and affecting ceremony at the Arlington National Cemetery, placing a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, after which Mrs Cbolidge placed a aingle white rose, in honour of the motherhood of tho nation. Meantime, on the height overlooking the Capitol, a little group of hia followers and associates, including liis widow-, gathered at Dr. Woodrow Wilson s tomb in the National Cathedral, and reaffirmed' thoir faith in Dr. . Wilson's great unfinished labours.