ACT OF HOMAGE.
CAPETOWN CEREMONY,
(British Official -Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 18 A traveller just returned from South Africa, in a letter to the-Manchester Guardian, tells of his experience in Capetown, where sirens are sounded to call the citizens to an act of homage at noon daily. “They observe a two-minute silence,’ lie gays. “The siren sounds and everybody "and everything is at once still. Motor-lorries, vans and bicycles drawup just where they are. A’Malay woman with a large bundle of washing on her head stops in the act of crossing the street. A youth hurrying to get across the street is suddenly brought to attention. Every man’s hat is doffed. Busy shoppers stand with their purchases, heads bowed, and then The Last Post is sounded. During the two minutes the people pray silently for our sailors, airmen and soldiers, for England and for freedom. After the Reveille the whole city becomes alive in a moment.” .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 251, 20 September 1940, Page 7
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