ARMISTICE DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1919, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY.

CEREMONY IN LONDON, TRIBUTES TO THE DEAD, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. . London, Nov. 11. Parties of Australian and New Zealand veterans will take part in the tribute of remembrance to-day. Following the solemn ceremonials in the morning, the evening will be devoted to rejoicings. Every theatre in the West End has already sold out its seats, and the restaurants have big bookings. There will be a great Victory Ball at the Albert Hall, many regimental gatherings, and reunions of Waacs, Wrens, land girls and other war workers. Whitehall was impaissabla all day. There waa an amazing crowd at the cenotaph, and many bearing wreaths were compelled to pass the flowers over the heads of those intervening. Lord Curzon, Mr. Winston Churchill (Secretary of State for War), and many generals, admirals, and other notables stood bare-headed beside the cenotaph during the interval of siler.ce. Fifty thousand participated in the Salvation Army's simple service before the Mansion House. Preceding the silence a vast crowd on St, Paul's steps sang "0 God Our Help In Ages Past" and the "National Anthem." The silence was impressively observed at Australian headquarters. Four buglers on the steps of the main entrance sounded the "Attention," and everybody halted and stood at attention until the buglers' "All Clear" broke the silence. A GREAT SILENCE. Flags on public buildings were haJJ. masted. The "Last Post" was sounded on the steps of the Royal Exchange The great assemblage in front of the Mansion House sang the doxology. The staff of the New Zealand House assembled in the main hall, and Captain Donne read the King's message, and the two minutes' silence followed. Sir Thos. Mackenzie, as a member of the War Graves Commission, attended the placing of a wreath by 11. Poincare on the Whitehall cenotaph. No ceremony beyond the cessation of work was observed at Australia House. Immediately the maroons were fired the roar of the traffic subsided into a great silence. Pedestrians remained standing bare-headed through the solemn and impressive interval. There was an enormous crowd in Whitehall round the cenotaph, which was the Mecca ol the day's ceremonial. The base of the monument was surrounded with beautiful wreaths. M. Poincare, a few moments before 11 oV.sck, placed a tvreath at the foot of the cenotaph in the presence of members of the War Graves Committee and a guard of honoi with arms reversed. Mr. Lloycl George, bare-headed, walked across from Downing Street and also deposited a wreath inscribed "To the glorious dead-" The business in the Courts of Justice was suspended and the lights lowered' .the Chief Justice, rising from the Bench, said: Let us stand in memory of the glorious dead." WREATH FROM THEIR MAJESTIES Received Nov. 13, fl p.m. London, ~ti or. 11. m connection with the great silence, the King sent a wreath to the cenotaph made of laurel leaves and yellow immortelles, on which His Majesty wrote: .J" ® eni ory of the glorious dead, from the King and Queen." Magistrates discharged many culprits "Who stood in the docks durine the silence, Aus.-X.Z. Cable Assn.