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Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 October 1915, Page 3

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Chronicle Oilicts .3 u.ni. London, ■October 2ii. iho memorial service ior Jilas 'Uiveii al 6t. Pauls was one oi gicat beauty ana tsuicnuuiy. J here was no striving alter eUeoi, nut even a sermon extolling uio oravo woman's saonnce, yet tno simplicity ol Uie seivtco and tlie dignity oi tJie music tiirilled tno vast congregation -\o one privileged to join this act oi noiship will iurget the lho great cathedral, with a lew struggling sunbeams at>kuit> tlie solt mist in tlie dome, and tlie thousand oi worshippers paying, their homage to a noble Hie. Although the great doors wea'e not opened till ten o'clock crowds gathered outside in an enormous queue, long bei'oro dawn. By mid-day there was no standing room in the Cathedral. Queen Alexandria was in nor pew beneath the dome. The King and Queen weie represented by lit. Hon. 11. 11. Asquith, and other members of the Cabinet and tlie Dominion representatives were present. The service was opened with Chopin's Funeral March, followed by the congregation singing AJfffe's Cabell's favourite hymn'' Abide with Ale." The Lord's Prayer was recited and Handel's Dead March in Saul played. r\\ sermon was preached and the benediction was pronounced by the Bishop cf London. London, October 29. Japan has become aparty to the treaty not to conclude a separate peace. General Joffre i.s visiting T«ondon. Ho ami Lord Kitchener left the WaFOffico together. Potrograd. Oct. 20. The failure of the Germans'to take Dvinsk and Riga ifi attributed to shortage of ammunition, which is'said to bo bee uning critical.