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BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL SERVICES IN LONDON. TEN THOUSAND PARTICIPATE. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 10.5 a.m. to-day. LONDON, Dec. 9. Ten thousand participated in the Toe H birthday festival, which began at the Dean’s serveo at Westminster Abbey, to which they marched headed by Lord Plumer and the burgomaster of Ypres. There were 140 padres and 275 banner bearers from branches, throughout the Empire. Afterwards they paraded past the Unknown Warrior’s tomb. Delegates gathered in the evening at Albert Hall, where Lord Forster, presiding, read His Majesty’s- latest bulletin. A vast audience then rose and sang “God Save the King.” Afterwards a semireligions masque was presented, illustrating Toe H ideals, in which eight hundred costumed performers, a massed choir of five hundred voices participated. Fnally there was a solemn ceremony of lighting the lamps- of remembrance, the festival concluding with Archbishop Davidson’s prayers. Lord Forster read out greetings from Melbourne, Sydney, Wellington, and Christchurch.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 10 December 1928, Page 7
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