ACT OF HOMAGE IN CAPE TOWN
(British Official Wireless) RUGBY, September 18. A traveller who has just returned from South Africa in a letter to The Manchester Guardian tells of his experience in Cape Town, where sirens are sounded to call the citizens to an act of homage. “At noon daily they observe two minutes’ silence,” he states. “A siren sounds and everybody and everything at once is still. Motorlorries, 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 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 ‘Last Post’ is sounded. During the two minutes the people pray silently for our sailors, airmen and soldiers, for England and freedom. After ‘Reveille’ the whole city becomes alive in a moment,”
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Southland Times, Issue 24236, 20 September 1940, Page 5
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159ACT OF HOMAGE IN CAPE TOWN Southland Times, Issue 24236, 20 September 1940, Page 5
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