LONDON’S TRIBUTE

Evening Star, Issue 19714, 15 November 1927, Page 5

LONDON’S TRIBUTE

PILGRIMAGE TO CENOTAPH A REMARKABLE SCENE POLICE BARRIERS SWEPT AWAY. Prcas Association—By Telegraph- Copyright LONDON, November 13. One of tho most remarkable scenes ever seen in London occurred in Whitehall this afternoon, when pilgrims to the Cenotaph were so numerous that the police barriers were swept away, and the roadway and pavement were filled with a solid mass of humanity. There was no disorder and an almost complete silence, lint the police were powerless against sheer weight of numbers. The queue covered the whole length of tho road and crept at a snail’s pace to the Cenotaph, thousands eventually visiting' the unknown soldier’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. . Mounted police bad the utmost difficulty in now and then clearing a passage for organised processions, of which many, accompanied by bands, had come to pay a combined tribute. These included costermongers, Sea Scouts, 400 British Fascists, 2,000 regalia-wearing members of the Order of Buffaloes, the resident French community, and a batch of Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen. POPPY DAY SALES. THE PRINCE'S APPEAL REALISED. LONDON, November 13. The task of counting 40,000,000 pennies, 2,000,000 silver coins, and 100,000 notes and cheques, the proceeds of the sale of 30,000,000 poppies throughout the country on behalf of ex-servico men on Armistice Day y has begun. The British Legion is satisfied that the Prince of Wales’s appeal for £500,000 will be more than realised. THE EMPIRE BROADCAST. SUCCESSFUL RESULTS. LONDON, November 13. Reports received by the ‘ Daily Express ’ show that the first Empire broadcast on Armistice Night, including the Prince of Wales’s speech, was fully picked up and rebroadcast at Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, and Bombay, and was partially picked up at Cairo, Colombo, Nairobi, and Hongkong.