ANZAC.

Shannon News, 27 April 1923, Page 4

ANZAC.

COMMEMORATION IN LONDON

(Received Thursday 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. Representatives of all the Australian States and New Zealand were present at the Anzac memorial service, also a number of visitors from the Dominions. Buses passing while the service was in progress stepped, while the passengers reverently bared their heads.

The chief speaker said the Anzacs did not enlist for an adventure, but were animated by love of the Flag, and loyalty to the Empire. The homes in Australia and New Zealand would never be the same as before the war. but relatives and friends found contentment in the fact that their dead still live in memory. Viscountess Novar placed a wreath on tne war shrine and many beautiful wreaths, official and private, were sent, including those sent on behalf of the New Zealand and Australian services.

Lord Derby and General Sir lan Hamilton were the guests of honour at the Australian and New Zealand Club’s Anzac luncheon. The toast “Our Brave Dead” was drunk in silence. THE ARMY’S FAREWELL. (Received Thursday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, April 25. The "Daily Mail's” Gallipoli correspondent reports that this Anzac Day finds many sights and sounds familiar to those who died there. A commemoration service will be attended by representatives of all branches of the Army encamped on the Peninsula, as well as the war graves workers. It will be the Army’s solemn farewell to its dead, as next #Uar if peace is signed, with Turkey, the Peninsula will resume its native solitude, apart from a few Turkish peasants and the guardians of the graveyards.