PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 May 1919, Page 5

PEACE CELEBRATIONS.

ENGLAND'S PROGRAMME

LONDON. Mav 14

Peace celebrations on August 3rd include national services of thanksgiving in Trafalgar Square, Westminster Abbey, and St. Paul's. Every church m the Empire will offer special prayers. On August 4th there will be a chain of bonfires from end to end of Britain, including 30,000 war flares, visible for many miles, and lasting ten minutes.

J On August sth, there will be military | and naval pageants and a merchant shipping pageant i n the Thames. WILLARD AND DEMPSEY. ! BOTH TRAINING STEADILY ■ LOS ANGELOS, May 28. i Jess Willard, the world's champion heavyweight boxed, has begun hard training for his amtch with Jack Dempsey at Toledo, Ohio, on July 4. He weighs 2601 b. (18st. 81b.), the name weight as when he fought Moran, Willard says that he weighed 249 lb. when he fought Johnson, and fie hopes to weigh 2501 b. when he meets Dempsey. The challenger ha s also arrived at Los Angeles, and has engaged Srrangler Lewis, the famon s wrestler as his trainer, END OF TURKISH EMPIRE Received, noon. PARIS, May 17. i Newspapers give prominence to the j importance of the occupation of Smy™a, which they regard as the end of I the Ottoman Empire. j