TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 5

TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE.

ARMISTICE DAY. OBSERVANCE IN LONDON. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION- -COPYRIGHT LONDON, Nov. 10. London is unusually crowded to-day, not merely because of the Lord Mayor’s Show ‘ which linked up the thirteenth and twentieth centuries in a pageant of colour and costume, but in preparation for to-morrow’s ceremony at the cenotaph, in which 1300 soldiers, sailofe- and airmen will take part, with the King, the Prince of Wales arid 1 * the Duke of York as the principal figures in a demonstration of national mourning. While the workmen to-day were erecting barriers, thousands of people moved slowly round the memorial, adding tributes to the ever-growing mound of flowers on the plinth. Crowds also visited Westminster Abbey, silently filing past the grave of the unknown warrior. '

Besides the- services at the cenotaph and the Abbey to-morrow there will be services in numerous churches in London. Silence will he observed throughout the country at 11 o’clock in the morning, the signal for which in London will he given by firing a gun in Hyde Park simultaneously with the broadcasting of the first stroke of Big Ben.

REMEMBRANCE IN SYDNEY

AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. SYDNEY, Nov. 11. • The city was beflagged to-day in honour of Armistice Day. The usual two minutes’ silence, with the cessation of all traffic, wa.s observed at. 11 o’clock. A great gathering in Martin Place, including the Governor and his wife, and the naval, military and political heads, participated in an impress sive ceremony, ending with the sounding of “The Last Post,” and the 1 rehoisting of all flags, which had been lowered in memory of the fallen. OBSERVED AT ELTHAM. (From Our Own Correspondent.) The two minutes’ silence was generally observed in Eltham yesterday. As the signal sounded by the Box Factory many stood; in silent memory of those who had fought and died. At the Salvation Army Boys’ Home the 50 boys were assembled in front of the building, and short addresses were delivered by Commandant Home and Adjutant Hawkins, after which the boys sang the National Anthem.