CAPETOWN’S HOMAGE
TWO MINUTES' SILENCE DAILY OBSERVANCE THE EMPIRE’S CAUSE (British Official Wireless) (United Press Association) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) RUGBY;-' Sept. 18. (Received Sept. 19. at 7 p.m.) A traveller who has 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 every day “ they observe two minutes’ silence. A siren sounds and everybody and everything at once is still. Motor lorries, vans and bicycles draw up just where they are. A Malay woman with a large bundle of washing on her head stops in the .act of crossing a street, and a youth hurrying to get across a street is suddenly brought to attention. Every man’s hat is doffed, and busy shoppers stand with ‘ their purchases, heads bowed, and then the “ Last Post ’ is sounded. . During ‘he two minutes the people prav" silently for our sailors, airmen and soldiers, for England and freedom. After the reveille the whole city becomes alive in a moment,”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24408, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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178CAPETOWN’S HOMAGE Otago Daily Times, Issue 24408, 20 September 1940, Page 6
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