TWO DECADES AGO

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 210, 4 August 1934, Page 7

TWO DECADES AGO

DAY NEEDS NO UNDERLINING. OBSERVANCE OF AUGUST 4. WAR GRAVE PILGRIMAGE. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 4, 11.52 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 3. To-morrow is the 20th anniversary of the outbreak of war between Britain and Germany. There will be no formal commemoration in London, as the general feeling is that the day needs no underlining. The British Legion of Ex-Servicemen will, however, talce part in a brief ceremony at the Cenotaph, when the acting High Commissioner for Canada will lay a wreath as a tribute from the Canadian Corps to their British comrades, and a Legion wreath will be laid as a tribute to the Canadians who gave their lives during the War A party of 500, mostly widows and mothers, will leave England to-morrow to visit the graves in France and Flanders. The annual' ceremony of "Scattering the ashes," which takes place at the huge Tynecot cemetery in the Ypres Salient, will take place on Sunday. The ashes will be those of small wooden crosses 'placed on Armistice day in the Field of Remembrance in Westminister Abbey To-morrow night the national broadcasting programme will contain an item entitled "Twenty Years Ago," when the main course of the events preceding the outbreak of the World War will be recapitulated and an attempt made to catch the atmosphere of those tragic days. The broadcast has been compiled from original documents b,y Professor Temperley, joint editor of the official British documents dealing with that period. "WHERE ARE WE NOW?" MR CHURCHILL'S REFERENCE. THE VICTORY OF 1918. Received August 4, 12 noon. LONDON, Aug. 3. Mr Winston Churchill, writing in the Daily Mail, recalling that twenty years have passed since the catastrophe broke upon the world, says: "We have travelled a sorry road since then. The most complete victory ever gained has left the victors more anxious and alarmed, and perhaps in greater danger, than before 'the war to end war.' Luckily; everyone still feels poor and Germany has not yet finished rearming. We knew where we were in 1914, but where are we now?"