"NO MORE WAR."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 269, 12 November 1937, Page 7

"NO MORE WAR."

CRY AT CENOTAPH.

Official Report to Commons On Incident. NO CRIMINAL ACTION. Brittah Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, November 11. Information was given to the House of Commons by the Home Secretary regarding the individual who made the disturbance at the Cenotaph during the silence. Sir Samuel Hoare said that his name was Stanley Storey (43), who was responsible for a disturbance in the Gallery of the House of Commons on •January 27, and who was in an asylum from February 4 to September 21, on which date he escaped. Since then he had been at large. I Storey fell forward through the ranks of police, who thought he was fainting, *aid the Minister. Then the man got up and dived through the naval contingent, shouting some such words as "No more war." He was immediately removed. Storey had said he thought of making this demonstration three days ago, but had no intention of making an attack on the King or anyone else. No weapons of any kind were found on him. The man was obviously suffering from delusions. He is at present in Fulham infirmary under observation. No question of criminal proceedings was under consideration. The only question is whether an application should be made to a magistrate for Storey's recertificaa" H '"""tic. This must depend upon the result of observations. DENSE THRONGS. Exceptionally Large Crowd At Cenotaph. IMPRESSIVE OBSERVANCE. British Official Wireless. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RL-<;BV November 11. King George VI. was for the first time the central figure at an Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, which was thronged with ail exceptionally large crowd. In other parts of London, notably outside St. Paul's Cathedral and the Royal Exchange, there were also vast concourses. The service at the Cenotaph followed the usual lines and was a model for thousands of similar services in cities, towns and villages throughout Britain and the Empire. In every case the service was preceded by an impressive observance of the two minutes' silence. Before the Cenotaph service begau, wreaths were laid around the base of the memorial bv representatives of \hi ion* units of tlio fijjlitin** forces mid others. The King laid his wreath in plac\> a few minutes before the service began. I he Prime Minister. Mr. Chamberlain, Leader of the Opposition, Mr. C. A. Attlee, the Lord Chancellor. Viscount Hailsham, and the Speaker, members of the Cabinet and Commissioners of the Dominions, nlso representatives of the forces of the Merchant Navy and fishing fleets. religious denominations, etc.. occupied positions around the Cenotaph.

IN JERUSALEM.

GUNS PROTECT CEREMONY. (Received 10.30 a.m.) JI'.Rl SAIJCM. November 11. Arabs I toy cot ted the British Armistice Day ceremony. Their representatives did not accept invitations. The Italian Consul also did not attend on the ground that prominent Abyssinian* were present. Cars, armed with Lewis guns, patrolled as a precaution against disturbances. One Arab was shot dead on the outskirts of Uie citv.

MR. JORDAN'S WREATH.

ON UNKNOWN SOLDIER S TOMB (Received 12 noon.) BRUSSELS, November 11. Hiiuseff dangerously wounded during the war at Meteren. Belgium, the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, Air. W.. J. Jordan, placed a wreath on the Belgian Unknown Soldier's tomb in memory of British and Dominion fallen. Mr. Jordan hopes to visit the battlefields before his return to London.