CELEBRATIONS AT HOME
LARGER AND GAYER CROWDS
United Tress Association—By Electric Tele-
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LONDON, January 1
Larger and gayer crowds than in recent years greeted the New Year.
- Contrasting with bygone years, when the New Year's advent was celebrated with whisky-drinking, community singing began at 11.15 p.m. During an interval the famous preacher, the Key. H. R. L. ("Dick") Sheppard, now a canon, who has long been associated with St. Martin's, Trafalgar Square, addressed the crowd from the steps. The remainder of the throng behaved in the usual carefree way.
In the meantime, the watch-night service within St. Paul's Cathedral was amplified to the assembly outside. The bells of St. Paul's pealed out at midnight for the first time for 40 years as the crowd sang "O God Our Help in Ages Past" and then faced the homeward journeys. Paris revelled as usual but not Deputies in the Chamber, where the clock was purposely-stopped so that the fiction was maintained of passing the Budget before the end of the year.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 1, 2 January 1936, Page 3
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