VICTORY PARADE IN SYDNEY

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24898, 11 June 1946, Page 5

VICTORY PARADE IN SYDNEY

CROWD OF 400,000 IN STREETS

FOREIGN CONTINGENTS TAKE PART (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9.30 am.) SYDNEY, June 10. A crowd estimated at 400.000 watched 20,000 servicemen and former servicemen and women march in to-day s Victory Parade. The display was made more colourful by the presence of French and Dutch contingents a small Greek party in white-skirted Evzone costumes, and by tanks, anti-air-craft guns and floats depicting the W Ambulance officers treated 220 cases of collapse. Most of the casualties were women spectators, none of whom was seriously ill. Royal Australian Air Force Mosquitoes and fighter aeroplanes flew m formation over the course of the procession. After the parade 20,000 people attended a Victory thanksgiving service in the Domain. To-night there will be music and displays of searchlights and fireworks from Fort Denison and naval vessels. “It is an uneasy peace. It will require from the people of the world and from Australia every effort to see that peace is preserved. ’ said the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley), at the Victory Day celebrations in Canberra. Mr Chifley asked people to dedicate themselves to the aim of nreservmg peace. He added that UNO was the greatest possible potential to bringing world peace. Melbourne’s victory celebrations began at 11 a.m. with a 21-gun salute from the Domain as ■ procession of service men and women and also civilian organisations moved off on a march through the city streets which were lined by 200,000 people. Royal Australian Air Force aeroplanes flew overhead. The street march attracted demonstrations of the utmost enthusiasm. The crowds broke the barriers at several points and mobbed the marching serviceman.