THE ARMISTICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1921, Page 5

THE ARMISTICE.

CEREMONIES IN LONDON By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 11. The great silence was observed, at 11. o’clock. Enormous crowds assembled afc the Cenotaph in Whitehall, where at short and impressive ceremony took place. xhe massed bands of the Guards played “O God Our Help/’ the assemblage joining in the singing. Buglers sounded the “Reveille,” then Mr. Lloyd George placed the Cabinet’s wreath inscribed “to the memory of the glorious, dead” on the cenotaph. The wreaths included one from the King and Queen. A commemoration also took place at the Stock Exchange, where the trumpeters of the Honorable Artillery Company sounded “The Last Post,” then after twai minutes silence, “The Reveille/’ There was a similar ceremony at th® Baltic Exchange, where the buglers of the Coldstream Guards sounded “Th® Last Post.” Unemployed men marched in the procession of contingents, wreaths in memory of the fallen oeing carried at the head of each section. One banner was inscribed “Tn memory of a grateful country, 1914-21, Armistice Day.” At Geneva, British delegates and th® Dominions' representatives at the Labox; Conference solemnised the Armistice by three minutes’ silence. Section leaders of the unemployed exservice men. placed wreaths on the cenotaph. The majority of the wreaths boro inscriptions suggesting that the unemployed were the victims of capitalism. Contentious Inscriptions in some instances were cut off by the police.