ANZAC DAY.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1921, Page 5

ANZAC DAY.

INCIDENTS AT HOME. LONDON MEMORIAL SERVICE. PILGRIMAGE TO ANZACS’ GRAVES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received April 26, 5.5 p.m. London, April 26. The Australian States* the 'Red Cross Society, the Australian Soldiers’ Club and soldiers’ relatives put wreaths on the cenotaph on Anzac Day. Canon Wise, of South Australia, conducted a service at St. Clements Danes, in the Strand, and a crowded congregation included. General Sir lan Hamilton, General Sir Alexander Godley, Commonwealth and State officials, many Australian soldiers, and relatives of soldiers. Canon "Voise’s address was based on the text: “By love serve one another.” There were, he said, two outstanding reasons why Australasians responded to the Empire’s call. Firstly, there was the love of adventure, which is an Australasian characteristic inherited from jthe pioneers and explorers, and secondly there was an intense personal love of England, which is greater than loyalty. The congregation stood while the organist played Chopin’s Funeral March and the Hallelujah Chorus. Canon Wise announced that Sir James Allen would place a wreath on the cenotaph.

On behalf of the parishoners the annual pilgrimage to United Kingdom cemeteries was carried out on an extensive scale. The Rev. A. Sharpe, organiser of the pilgrimages, received many touching letters from correspondents, who undertook to tend the graves regularly. Flowers placed on seventy-four graves at Cannock Chase, near which a New Zealand training camp was situated. Mr. Smith, manager of the Australian cricket team, on behalf of himself and the Australian cricket team, placed a wreath on the cenotaph inscribed: “In grateful remembrance of those who died that we might live.”—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CEREMONY ON GALLIPOLI. WREATHS PLACED ON THE GRAVES Received April 26, 8 p.m. London, April 26. General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, who is inspecting graves on Gallipoli on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission, telegraphs that he laid wreaths pf wild flowers on the graves of the heroic dead. He adds: “May we who survive -do our best to spread a cheerful spirit of self-sacrifice, to duty and comradeship, which they iso gloriously exemplified, thus helping to attain the ideals for which they fought.”—Reuter Service.