THE PEACE QUEST

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 296, 12 November 1934, Page 2

THE PEACE QUEST

3.45 P.M. EDITION

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(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

Received November 12, 110 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 11. All day and far into the evening Londoners filed past the Cenotaph and visited the Unknown Warrior’s Tomb in the Field of Remembrance.

Sir James Parr placed a wreath on the Cenotaph on behalf of New Zealand.

Mr R. A. Eden, speaking at Strat-ford-on-Avon, urged the widest possible general disarmament by an international convention, but deprecated undue weakening of Britain’s defences.

Sir John Simon broadcast a talk to America, emphasising the urgent need of peace and advocating Anglo-Ame-can co-operation. The Archbishop of York denounced the Treaties of Versailles and Trianon as a prolonged act of warfare. He said their revision >vas an indispensable preliminary to genuine peace. Christians must aid in the progress to international law from the boasted international anarchy in which the world now lived. “We must renounce the claim for absolute external sovereignty and not demand in the last resort to judge our own case. We must bind ourselves to accept the judgment of an international authority equipped to settle international disputes. If an international force were known to be sufficient it would probably never need to be used,” declared the Archbishop. Rev. J. T. Rhys, of Bermondsey, suggested an impressive deputation to His Majesty imploring him to launch a world effort to abolish war.

The Duke of Kent, marching in the British Legion procession, placed a wreath on the Stone of Remembrance in Edinburgh on behalf of the King. Another wreath was placed in commemoration of Earl Haig, whom the local clergy extolled. The only place where a discordant note sounded in the British Isles was Dublin, where youths burned a Union Jack. Twelve were arrested. Republican ex-service men marched in protest against Imperialistic displays. The largest undergraduate peace demonstration yet held occurred at Oxford, where, after the ex-scrvice-men’s procession ended, 1000 students marched. They were forbidden to bear banners, but trades, unionists carried flags inscribed “Scholarships, Not Battleships.”

A party of Old Contemptibles, fifty strong, some grey-haired and some surprisingly youthful, joined in the steady tramp of thousands of members of the British Legion to the Albert Hall, where the Prince of Wales stood at attention in the Royal box with Lord JeJlicoe and Sir Frederick Maurice, while the ex-soldiers gave cheer for cheer. They bore banners emblazoned with the names of Mons, Le Cateau, Armentieres, La Basse, the Marne, and Ypres. Behind them came the Chelsea pensioners and women’s services.

The audiences sang the National Anthem and cheered the pictures of Lord Jellicoe and Lord Ypres, and particularly that of Earl Haig. Thereafter the Prince of Wales spoke in darkness. Then followed Laurence Binyon’s Requiem, “For the Fallen.” A shower of Over a million scarlet poppy petals, one in memory of each of the Empire’s dead, fluttered from the roof and rested on bowed heads and shoulders of the survivors of the war. The drummers of the Irish Guards and trumpeters of the Life Guards sounded the Reveille.

AMERICAN OBSERVANCE

PRESIDENT AT ARLINGTON

Receievd November 12, 1.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. President Roosevelt made the an-% nual visit to the National Cemetery at Arlington on the occasion of Armstice Day and placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. As it is Sunday a legal holiday will be observed to-morrow with tho veterans participating in the customary ceremonies throughout the nation.