ARMISTICE DAY.
AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.
woR LD-\VIDE oItsEII YANGE. (Received this day at 12.J0 p.m.) LONDON, November 11.
Trallie wa.s held up for two hours in Dublin owing to enormous crowds participating in Armistice Day celebrations. , * World-wide celebrations have been
recorded. A public holiday was observed m Fiance, where shops were closed and the streets were bellagged. The duel ceremony was at the tomb of the fnhnown Soldier where .Marshal Foeli deposited a wreath of palms and M. Herriot a. wreath of llowers on the memorial tablet to the Itritish fallen, in Notre Ibime.
riCKNKK IX DI’DI.IN. LONDON. Nov. 11
There* was an astonishing demonstration in Dublin despite the Police t'omuuissi'oncr. General Murphy’s order forbidding the Armistice silence, as it would interrupt tram trallie. At l »lW 0 Circcn, crowds of ex-servicemen, civil servants and supporters, wearing the Flanders poppies. headed by bands, defiantlv oeeiipietl the Green. and overflowed into the side streets. m.dmrn. the police impotent. i lie l mon -bo , replaced the tri-colour on the TiuliU >1 Ireland and the crowd placed wreaths nml Celtic crosses in eoinmemoratmn ol the fallen.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1924, Page 3
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185ARMISTICE DAY. Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1924, Page 3
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