ARMISTICE DAY

Hokitika Guardian, 15 November 1927, Page 1

ARMISTICE DAY

(Australian & N.Z. Cablo Association.]

AT THE CENOTAPH. • REMARKABLE SCENES. LONDON, Nov. 13. One of the most remarkable scenes ever seen in London, occurred tit Whitehall this afternoon when, the pilgrims to the Cenotaph were so numerous that the police harriers were swept away. The roadway and pavement were filled with a solid mass of humanity. There was no disorder and almost complete silence, hut the police were powerless against the sheer weight of numbers. The queue covered the whole length of the road and crept at a snail’s pace to the Cenotaph, thousands eventually visiting the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb in Westminster Abbey. .Mounted police had the utmost difficulty, now and then of (Tearing tho passage for the organised procession of which many accompanied by hands, had come to pay a combined tribute. These included the costermongers, sea scouts, four hundred British Fascists, two thousand regalia wearing members 01 the Order of Buffaloes, the resident French community, and a hutch of the Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen.

POPPY DAY APPEAL. LONDON, Nov. 13. The task of counting forty million pennies, two million silver coins, and a hundred thousand notes and cheques, the proceeds of the sale of thirty million poppies, throughout the country, on behalf of ex-service men, oil Armistice Day, has begun. The British Legion is satisfied that the Prince of Wales’s appeal for half a million sterling will be more than realised. FRENCH MEMORIAL. PARIS, Nov. 1-1. A monument to Louise de liittingnies, who was the Edith Cnvell ol France, was unveiled in Lille, with full military honours, in the presence of Lord Crewe. Louise de Bittingnies, who was the chief British agent in Belgium, was finally caught, and died ill prison in Cologne in IBIS. ARMISTICE NIGHT BROADCAST. LONDON. Nov. 13. Reports received by the " Daily Express” show the first Empire broadcast on Armistice night, including the Prince of Wales' speech, was fully picked up and re-broadonstod at Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Bombay, and partially picked up at Cairo, Colombo. Nairobi and Hong Kong.