ARMISTICE DAY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 36, 6 November 1928, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY

TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE NEXT SUNDAY

THE PROMOTION OF WORLD

PEACE To celebrate the* tenth anniversary of Armistice Day. which occurs on Sun--1 day next. November 11, a great demonstration of silence at H a.m. has been arranged, literally world-eucircling in its scope. For this purpose the League of Remembrance, with headquarters in New York, has sent invitations to the heads of every country within the latitudes of 30deg. find 45deg. to cooperate by the suspension of all industrial activity as far as possible, and the cessation of all vehicular traffic during the. two solemn minutes at 11 a.m., the hour when the Armistice agreement was signed in 191 S and the great war ceased. In this way, says the League, as the earth revolves around the sun, and the hands of the clock move in unison, every hour of the procession of twentyfour on Armistice Day will be signalised in every longitude by a reverential and prayerful pause emphasising the duty of every country and every creed to preserve the peace of the world and to promote the spirit of peace. \ The League of Remembrance. The League of Remembrance, established on November 11, 1919, to promote world peace, is co-operating with national, State, -civic and other agencies in the United States and abroad to secure the world-wide celebration of Armistice Day by the two minutes’ silence. The invitations have been sent out not only to the heads of every Government of countries within the latitudes mentioned, but also to various groups of peoples in those countries and to their diplomatic representatives in Washington, whose good offices have been requested in furtherance of a proposal which it is believed will make a powerful appeal to all people in a day when the goal of world peace, which only a few years ago seemed almost unattainable, is now within measurable reach. In accordance with Greenwich time the demonstrations begins in Europe at 11 a.m. and continues without a break on the islands and ships of the Atlantic until five hours later Greenwich time, which will, be 11 a.m. in New York. From the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Coast of the United States the celebration will be complete on Armistice Day. Four hours later, when 11 a.m. will be striking on the Pacific Coast in the longitude of 125 deg., the observance of the silence will be taken place on ships at sea and islands of the Pacific, until Japan, 15 hours later than New York, as the earth revolves around the sun and the hands of the clock move in unison, is reached. A Cordon of Countries.

With China and the lapse of 24 hours the globe encircling cordon of countries found between the latitudes of 30deg. and 45deg. will be complete, and for the first time in the history of the world will have been literally encircled with' a garland of golden links of silence in the cause of world peace.

v This year’s work, says the League of Remembrance, limited to a belt of countries around the. globe is but the preparatory stage- to a greater campaign next year to capitalise world sentiment for. peace by inviting every country in the. world to observe the two minutes’ silence at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year since the first Armistice Day. The League of Remembrance is nonpolitical, non-partisan, non-sectarian and strictly unofficial. It represents people of various countries and creeds who are united in the desire to celebrate Armistice Day by the two minutes’ silence as a simple, inexpensive and beautiful means available to everybody everywhere of promoting world peace and happiness.