EMPIRE DAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 121, 24 May 1937, Page 10

EMPIRE DAY

LONDON CELEBRATIONS

24 ROYALTIES TO ATTEND ' SERVICE

(British Official Wireless.) (Rece'ive<KMay 24, 2 p.m.) ' RUGBY, May 22, Empire Day will be celebrated on Monday, arid in London the occasion will have special significance in view. of the presence here of so many re* presentativesfrom various parts of the Empire, including the-Dominion'-Prime Ministers now attending the Imperial Conference. Central features of this year's eel*, brations will be the Empire Day sei> < vice in St. Paul's Cathedral, which will also be regarded as a service oil thanksgiving .for the Coronation. Tha King and Queen and Queen Mary, together with 21 other members of the Royal Family, will attend. The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and most of his Cabinet colleagues, as well as the Prime Ministers and others representing the Dominions and repre-1 t sentatives of India and the Colonial Empire, will be present. The King and Queen will travel by car from Buckingham Palacs to the Cathedral,, and .the- other members oj the Royal Family will arrive individually. In the procession to St. Paul's, where they will be received by theBishop of London, the Dean, and the Chaplain, the King and Queen will ba preceded by the Lor/1 Mayor of Lon-. don bearing the City's pearl sw.ord. An interesting feature of the service is that the first lesson will'be read by, the Prime Minister of Canada and the second by the Moderator of the Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Church. The Archbishop of York will preach the sermon. ;