REMARKABLE SCENES
LARGE CROWDS VISIT CENOTAPH. ALMOST COMPLETE SILENCE. London, Nov. 13. One of the most remarkable scenes ever seen in London occurred at Whitehall this afternoon, when pilgrims to the Cenotaph were so numerous that police barriers were swept away. T he roadway and pavements were filled with a' solid mass of humanity. There was no disorder and almost complete silence, but the police were powerless against the sheer weight of numbers. The queue covered tho whole length of the road and crept at a snail’s pace to the Cenotaph. Thousands eventually visited the Unknown Soldier’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. Mounted police had the utmost difficulty now and then in clearing a passage for organised processions, of which many, accompanied by bands, had come to pay a combined tribute. These included costermongers, sea scouts, 400 British Fascists. 2000 regalia-wearing members of the Order of Buffaloes, the resident French community and a batch of the Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen.— (A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 15 November 1927, Page 3
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162REMARKABLE SCENES Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 15 November 1927, Page 3
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