ARMISTICE DAY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 November 1924, Page 9

ARMISTICE DAY

EXTRA EDITION.

0 ASTOUNDING SCENES IN DUBLIN. GREAT CROWDS AT COLLEGE . GREEN. **s *>**?«•* **, Received Nov. 12, 12.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 11. There was an astonishing demonstration in Dublin. Despite Police Commissioner General Murphy’s order forbidding the. armistice silence, "as ; it would interrupt trams and traffic, at College Green crowds of ex-service men, civil servants, and supporters, wearing Flanders poppies and headed by bands, defiantly occupied the Green and overflowed into the side streets, rendering the police impotent. The Union Jack replaced the tricolour on the Bank of Ireland. . The crowds placed wreaths on the Celtic cross in commemoration of the fallen.—Sydney Sun Cable. MEMORIAL TO THE FALLEN. EY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Nov. 11. Traffic was held np for two hours in Dublin owing to the enormous crowds participating in the Armistice Day .celebrations. World-wide celebrations have been recorded. A. public holiday -was observed in France, where tlie shops /were closed and. the streets befliagged. The. chief ceremony was at the tomb of the “Unknown Soldier,” where Marshal Foch deposited a wreath of palms and M. Herriot a wreath of flowers on the memorial tablet, to the British .fallen in Notre Dame Cathedral. '

! RECORD CROWD AT CENOTAPH

MILLIONS OBSERVE SILENCE

TWO OFFENDERS ROUGHLY HANDLED.

< Received Nov. 12, 10.25 a.m. * ; ; LONDON, Nov. 11. Armistice Day was celebrated in fine weather. The great silence was most impressive, millions of people standing bareheaded for two minutes. All traffic ceased. The crpwd at the Cenotaph was a record and the packed mass extended from Trafalgar Square to the old Palace yard. The warm sunshine, unusual for November, lit up the splashed, colour, in which the ' whites of the wreaths and reds of Flanders poppies were prominent. The Cenotaph stood out in the clear air amid a rectangle of troops and exservice men with massed bands and guards. The. Queen watched the ceremony from a window at .the Government office. Popular indignation was manifested clearly in two cases in London where men did not observe the Armisltioe silence. N one offender was noticed walking along the Strand behatted, while everyone else was stock still and bareheaded and everything stationary. So as the tru-mpets announced the end of the silence a rush was made for the man, who was severely handled before, being rescued by the police. In_ the other ease, near the Bank of England, the crowd in due course badly mauled an offender, who took refuge in .a shop, which had to b.e protected by a cordon of police. SOUTH AFRICA’S OBSERVANCE. ■ CAPETOWN, Nov. 11. Armistice Day was generally observed throughout South Africa by a two minutes’ pause. —Reuter. OBSERVANCE IN CEYLON. GERMAN SHIP/TbEFUSE ORDERS. COLOMBO, Nov. 11. Armistice Day celebrations passed off in the usual manner in Colombo, ex- • cept for the fact that two German vessels in the harbour (the Ockenfels and the Elmshorn) refused to comply with the notice served on them by the port. authorities to observe two minutes’ silence.—Reuter. MOTHERS AND WIVES ENTERTAINED. On Tuesday afternoon many mothers and wives of soldiers accepted the invitation of the Women’s National Reserve to tea. Mrs. Hoddle’s tables were artistically decorated with summer flowers, and each guest received a dainty spray of sweet-smelling blooms. After a bright musical programme had been enjoyed, Mrs. King, the vice-president of .the Reserve, in apologising for the absence of Mrs. Corrigan, read a letter full of sympathetic thoughts and good-wishes from the Mayor. Then Mrs. King introduced the Rev.G. Bush-King, who held those prespn.fi with keen interest while he carried them back ten years ago and reminded them of what the women at home meant to the boys at the front. Mr. Bush-King brought a very fine address to a dose by drawing a very vivid picture of armistice Day six years ago and -what it meant,' and how that meaning was embodied in the peace terms in principles of a true British nature.

Before the .gathering dispersed, the hostesses were charmed by a most eloquent little speech made by Mrs. Squirp, who voiced the feelings of the cruests towards the members of the Women’s .National Reserve and those who had contributed towards making the afternoon such a success. Those who -provided items were Mesdames Drydeu an.d MacGregor and Miss Jenkins (vocal), 'Miss Bissett (pianoforte), and Mesdames Twaddle and Strange (elocution).