ANZAC OBSERVANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 126, 27 April 1940, Page 10

ANZAC OBSERVANCE.

LONDON REMEMBERS. WREATHS AT CENOTAPH. LONDON, April 25. Anzac Day was observed in London with solemn dignity. There was no ceremony at the Cenotaph, but himdreds individually paid their homage all day long. The New Zealand High Commissioner (Mr AV. J. Jordan) laid tlie first wreath, i o!!owed by Lord Birdwood for the Indian Army, Mr S. M. Bruce for the Commonwealth Forces, General Sir lan Hamilton for the British Empire Service League, General Sir Alexander Godley for the New Zealand Army, Sir AValter Braithwaite for the Army Council and the British Army, Sir Beauvoir Delislc for the Twenty-ninth Division (which participated in the landing at Gallipoli), the French Military Attache (General Belong), and representatives of the Royal and Merchant Navies. Later a service was held at St. Clement Danes, conducted by Rev. P. Bickford. Tho Australian-born head of the Salvation Army (General G. L. Carpenter) delivered the address, and Mr Jordan and Mr Bruce read the Lessons. The New Zealand contralto Miss Christiana Young gave a solo. The congregation included the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, Lord Birdwood. Lord Milne. Sir, lan Hamilton, Sir Alexander Godley, High Commissioners, Agents-General, and members of the Nqw Zealand Anti-Tank Corp and the It.A.A.F.

Sir Alexander Godley’s Anzac Day message to the New Zealand troops read : I am supremely confident that the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force will worthily uphold the glorious record of tho first. A New York message states that 200 people, including several original Anzacs, attended the Australian and New Zealand Societies’ Anzac Day dinner, at which arrangements were made to co-operate with the British war relief. Messrs Robert Nicholson and Wilson Ewart sang Anzac songs.