THE OFFICIAL NEWS
AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE
THE MESSAGE FROM THE KING
Thd official announcement that tho Armistice had been signed was made from
, ,tho steps of the Old Parliamentary f Buildings at 10.30 a.m.- yesterday, in i accordance with the programme prcvious- , ly laid down. The proceedings were en- ! tirely formal, and highly impressive. A "very large number of citizens had gath- ) ,'ered below the steps, and there was a '• fitir of excitement when the GovernorGeneral (Lord Liverpool) made his ap-
pearance. Lord Liverpool was afcompa'ned in- • the Prime, Minister (the Right Hon. W. i F Massev), the Minister of Finance (Sir r Joseph Ward), and a large military stafi, ! including Major-General Sir Alfred Kobm : (Commandant of the Forces), Colonel G. ! M. Gibbon (Chief of the General Staff), 5 Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. Sleeman (Direc- ; tor of Military Operations), Colonel E. - '.\f Tate (Adjutant General), Colonel Porter, Colonel J. G. Hughes, Colonel Campbell (Coast Defence Comriiander), Major ! Andrews (Assistant Adjutant-General),
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 8
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159THE OFFICIAL NEWS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 42, 13 November 1918, Page 8
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