EMPIRE DAY.
CELEBRATIONS IN BRITAIN.
LIBERAL PRESS SILENT.
MESSAGE FROM MR FISHER.
By Teles raph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. May 25, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 24. Empire Day was widely observed today. Flags were flying generally on private' houses, and over hundreds of colonial .business houses and agents' offices. There were, however, no flags on any of the Government buildings or public offices. At the Guildhall a thousand children took' part in tho celebration. After tho Union Jack had been unfurled, the National Anthem was sung, and the Lord Mayor made a stirring appeal to the children, to practice personal kindness and patriotism. The Earl of Meath said tho Empire's nine million school children were honouring the flag not for Ihe purpose of brandishing the sword, but making the Empire and the world better and happier. Tho chairman of the London County Council unfurled a flag from the Mascot School at Botany Bay, New South Wales, at Ben Jonson's school at Mile-End Road, near Captain Cook's residence, and two thousand children saluted it.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5
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171EMPIRE DAY. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1759, 26 May 1913, Page 5
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