IN REMEMBRANCE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 43, 14 November 1919, Page 7

IN REMEMBRANCE

VICTORY ANNIVERSARY IN LONDON

IMPRESSIVE SCENES

(By Telejrraj>h--Pree» Ajsoolation-OosyriEM London, November 11. . Partiro of Australian and New Zealand veterans took part in the tribute of remembrance to-day. Following the solemnity of tho ceremonies in tho morning, the evening was devoted to rejoicings, every theatre in the West End was sold out, and all seats in restaurants booked. A groat Victory Ball was held in Albert Hall, and thero wero many regimental gatherings, also reunions of Waacs, Wrens, Land Girls, and other war workImmediately the maroons were firod, the road of traffic subsided into a great silence. Pedestrians remained standing bareheaded through the solemn impressivo interval. There was an ■enormous crowd in Whitehall round tho cenotaph, which is the Mecca on days of ceremonial. Tho base of the monument was surrounded with beautiful wreaths. M. Poincare. a few minutes before 11 o'clock, placed a wreath at the foot of the cenotaph in the presence of members of the War Graves Committee and a guard of honour with arras reversed. Mr. Lloyd George, bareheaded,' walked across "from Downing Street and also deposited a wreath inscribed, "To tho glorious dead." Business in the Courts of Justice was suspended, and the lights lowered. Ihe .Chief Justice, rising from the Bench, said: "Let us stand, in memory of tno glorious dead." . . Flags on public buildings were at halfmast, and the "Last Post" was sounded from the steps of the Eoyal Exchange. A great assemblage in' front ot the Alandon House sang the Doxology. The staff of New Zealand House assembled in the main hall, and Captain Donno read the King's Message. Two minutes' silence followed. Sir Thomas Mackenzie. High Commissioner, '.as a member of the War Graves Commission, attended the placing of M. Poincare s wreath at Whitehall. No ceremony, bojond the cessation of work, was observed at Australia House. . Whitehall was impassable.all day long. TheTO was an amazing crowd at the cenotaph, and- many bearing wreaths were compelled to pass the flowers over the heads of those intervening. Lord Curzon, Mr. Winston Churchill, and many generals, admirals, and other notables stood bareheaded beside the cenotanh during the interval i£ silence. Fifty thousand people pßlticipated in the Salvation ,'Armv's simpre service before the Mansion House preceding the silence. A vast crowd on tho steps of St. Paul's eang "0 God, our Help in Ages Past," and the National Anthem. The silence was impressively observed at Australian headquarters. _ Four buglers from tho steps of the mam entrance rounded tho "Attention, and everybody halted and stood at attention until the buglers' "All clear" broke the eilence.-Am-N.Z. Cable Aasn.

THE ROYAL TRIBUTES (Rec. November 18, 9 p.m.) London, November 11. In connection with "the great silence.' the' King sent a wreath to the Cenotaph tit Whitehall, made of laurel leaves and yellow immortelles on which His Majesty wrote: "lii memory of the glorious dead, from tf'e King and Queen.' ■ The Magistrates discharged many culprits who stood in the docks during the "silence.'—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.