ARMISTICE DAY.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1924, Page 2

ARMISTICE DAY.

ID6TBALIAN AND N.Z. OABMt ASSOCIATION PARIS OBSERVANCE. PARIS, November 11. An outstanding feature of the observance of Armistice Day was the march of twenty thousand men who were disabled in the war, to ask M. Ilerriot lor increased pensions. Blind soldiers headed tile procession followed by those minus limbs. Finally at the end. the most striking of all. passed those who were disfigured. The sight was so moving that the crowds in the Chumps Elysee instinctively bared the:r heads. There was slight disorder at the Place tie la Coneoide, where a few onlookers sang "l.a I nterna I ioiiale.”

At. Ileniot pomised sympathetic consideration of the petition presented, bv the disabled men.

LONDON REVELS BY NIGHT. LONDON, November 111. Pitiless rain starting at seven o'clock marred Armistice Night in London. Nevertheless, at ihe Cenotaph, there was a continuous queue until, a late hour. There were carnival scenes in the hotels and restaurants, and a great traffic block occurred in the West End.

KUKxnr <m:kkti\(;.' to Canada OTTAWA. Nov. 11.

The Chief (if Still!' ill the Xiiliuiiiil Defence Cones Jins received the fullowing liu.'ssano. “Ilu* admini>t latum of tla* <*itv and the population ol Molls stun! i-onlial to tin* Canadian Army.”