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Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20105, 8 December 1930, Page 11

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WORLD-CHAIN OF LIGHT. 1 if teextji anniversary of birthday. C "XITED ASSOCIATION— Sl' ELECTRIC TELEORArH— COPYRIGHT.} (deceived December Gth, 5,5 p.m.) LONDON, December 6. <jc IX world-chain of light commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of its birthday was inaugurated at Talbot House at Poperinghe, where the chapel in an upper room is now restored to its wartime condition with the original nn^'' , at "' llich 2-5.000 solidiers re- . , < ' oll "" u "'oii, and the shcllm*u vL 'd harmonium. Porty-fivc exso < iers who were among the originators o foe II went to Poperinghe yester- ( <l} morning and visited Menin Gate, w iere Padre Clayton, at nine o'clock Is., mght, lighted a symbolic lamp. Simultaneously a thanksgiving service was held at St. Paul's, where amidst silence a lamp was lighted, after which links will travel westward and lamps lighted at tin: same hours until the circuit ot the globe is completed. A mass meeting will be held at Albert Ilall at nine o'clock to-night, when Padre Clayton's message signalling the completion of the circuit will be broadcast to the world. CHAIN OF LAMPS COMPLETED. CEREMONY AT ALBERT HALL. (Received December 7th, 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 7. Lord Stonehaven represented Australia, and the German and American Ambassadors were also present at a gathering of 7000 people at Albert Hail for tho celebration ot' the Toe H festival, tc mark tho completion of tho world chain of lights started at Talbot House, I'operinghe, on December sth. Those who returned from the ceremony received a deafening welcome Padre Clayton read greetings from tho Prince of Wales. He traced the trail blazed by tho lights via Ireland West Indies, both Americas, Australia. China India, and South Africa. Aftei that fifty unlit lamps, headed by the Prmce's perpetually burning light, were borne in procession, and lit trom the Prince's lamp Then all other i'luminnl ion was quenched, leaving the fiftv lamps burning in tho centre of the hall, amid •) hem of surrounding darkness, while the whole gathering echoed Padre Clayton's nuo+ntion of Binyon's lines, ending— <: We will remember them." .After this n minute's - was observed. Similar "Mhermgs were held at Nottingham. CMencecter. Newcastle. Cardiff, and Belfast CHRIST CHURCH BRANCH CEREMONY. LIGHTING OF THE LAMP. In the chain of Toe II lamps that during last week-end v ore being lit all round the world, the Christchurch link was duly forged on Saturday evening, at the organisation's club rooms in Chester street. Tho observance consisted of 'the ceremony ot light." This was preceded by a short address hy Padre O. Williams. Padre Williams described briefly the world-wide nature of the ceremony Tho cluiin of light started in I'operinghe at 9 o'clock on 1' riday night, and, travelling westward, it was intended that it should make a complete circle round the world. There wore branches of Toe H in all KnglishRpcokinc countries, nnd a. lamp Would be lit at each. Mr Ormond Wilson, a member of the Oxford (England) branch of the organisation, who has been touring the Dominion, was present at the eeromonv, and also gave a short address.