REVIEWED BY KIND

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9

REVIEWED BY KIND

PARADE OF EX-SOLDIERS . LARGEST SEEN IN ENGLAND Press Association —By Telegraph Copyright LONDON, June 27. (Received June 28, at 10 a.m.) In the greatest parade England lias ever seen, 80,000 ex-servicemen and women gathered in Hyde Park and were reviewed by the King, whom the majority had never seen. Rank knew no place. Officers lined up with the men. Sir lan Fraser led 200 blinded veterans. Nearly 2,000 came from the Free State and Ulster in one party, demonstrating the bond of comradeship. Their Majesties, after the parade, visited the enclosure where 1,000 disabled soldiers were accommodated in chairs. KING ADDRESSES PARADE “ the calamity of war.” LONDON, Juno 27. (Received Juno 28, at 1 p.m.) The march-past lasted one and ahalf hours. Special cheers were given for General Gough, leader of the Fifth Army. Ex-private R. Loveridge, of the Cyclists Battalion, carried the New Zealand standard before Generali Sir Alexander Godley, and Colonels N. W. (B. Thomas, N. F. Falla, and D. B. Blair. Four ex-nursing sisters accompanied the Now Zealanders. The King, addressing the parade, said: “I am happy, as a patrion, to be associated with the work of the great brotherhood of ex-servicemen, which, as one of the brotherhood myself, I have always watched with interest and sympathy. I fed we can render no greater service to the human race than by convincing the world of the calamity war becomes for victors and vanquished alike. It is for all of us to see that the war-time spirit of unselfishness and sympathy is not allowed to fade.”