THE SILENCE
ON ARMISTICE! DAY. ( United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, November 16. A letter written by the King’s direction, to Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, of South Africa, who was imprisoned by President Kruger in the'year 1895 for complicity in the Jameson Raid, reveals that Sir P. Fitzpatrick is the originator cf the two minutes silence, on. Armistice Day. He put the idea before Lord Milner and the King, and the Government immediately approved: It is possible that Sir P. Fitzpatrick got the basic idea- from the practice at Johannesburg of blowing" the mine hooters at midday during the war. The people stepped work for a brief space, and thought of those at the front. The letter from Buckingham Palace says: —The King gratefully remembers the idea of the two minutes pause, duo to you initiation,
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1930, Page 2
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