ANZAC CELEBRATIONS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 123, 28 April 1925, Page 2

ANZAC CELEBRATIONS

SCENES AT THE CENOTAPH. PEOPLE REVERENT AND QUIET. LONDON, April 25. There were vein ark able scenes at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where the High Commissioners had to struggle through a vast crowd in order to place wreaths on the occasion of Anzac Day. Thousands of men and women from Yorkshire and Wales who had arrived in London to attend the Association Cup final, wearing football colours, ranged on both sides of the road. They were all reverent and ouiet, contrasting with their previous hilarity and excitement while journeying through the streets in charabancs and on foot. They doffed their weirdlycoloured hats and their sudden silence and cease-fire of rattles, the hushing of clamorous voices, was more impressive than the organised demonstration of respect. The crowd waited all the morning, with bunches of flowers, including scores of buttonholes plucked impulsively from coat lapels, the wearers laying them at the foot of the Cenotaph. At the services at Saint Clement Danes during tho singing of “Jesu, Lover of My Soul,” ex-servicemen placed wreaths on the war shrine, after which the Anzac Hymn, “Father. King Immortal,” was sung, followed by the solo, “Abide With Me,” and the Last Post. The ceremony concluded with tho playing of Chopin’s Funeral March by the organist.—A. and N.Z. cable. GRAVES AT WALTON-ON-THAMES. LONDON, April 26. At a procession through the Anzac graves at Walton-in-Tlmmes Sir James Allen, who was accompanied by the New Zealand commanders Generals Sir Andrew Russell and Sir Edward Chaytor, thanked the people of Walton for the care of the graves and the kindness shown to New Zealand boys in England, which was remembered with great thankfulness by the mothers and tho people of New Zealand.—Reuter. KING GEORGE IN PARIS. ~PARIS, April 25. A dense, enthusiastic crowd heartily clieered King George at the Arc de Triomphe. A military band played the National Anthem as the King deposited a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior. The King then stood in silence for a minute while the band played the Marseillaise. The King, after the ceremony, cordially shook bunds with Marshals Foch and Gcuraud, and then drove off amid renewed cheers.—A. and N.Z. cable. HOMAGE IN SHANGHAI. PEKIN, April 25. In the presence of forty Australians this morning, Burgeon Captain W. E. O’Hara and Captain A. W. Cook, who were tin Gallipoli, laid tho Anzac wreath on the war memorial monument in the Bund at Shanghai. The scene was picturesque as the mixed river traffic and the queer medley of rushing vehicles passing closely alongside slowed down while the little band paid their homage to the dead.-—A. and N.Z. cable.