NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927. ARMISTICE DAY

Northern Advocate, 10 November 1927, Page 4

NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1927. ARMISTICE DAY

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Tomorrow is Armistice Day. It marks the anniversary of an occasion which, will never be forgotten by those who were of age nine years ago, for at 11 o'clock on the morning of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 the order to “cease fire" ended four years of carnage and horror. Who can describe in cold print the joy which the news of that order gave to the whole world! There are those who have professed regret that the war was stopped on Armistice Day, that the retreating Hermans were not followed into Berlin, and that peace was not signed there under conditions as humiliating as those which Germany imposed upon France almost half a century earlier. Whatever justification there may be for such regret, the fact remains that the ending of hostilities made Armistice Day a joyful occasion for Germany and the Allied nations. Regret that the war hud not been pushed to the bitter end found little place, in the hearts of the people nine years ago. It should find still less room tomorrow, for tho passage of the years has led people to realise that if a repetition of the World War horror is to" be prevented, love, and not hatred, must animate tho nations. Armistice Day, while it revives sad memories in millions of bereaved hearts the world over, is a day of which the British Empire may be proud. It is a reminder that Britain saw the rugged path of duty and that her sons rushed from all the corners of the earth to tread that path with her. Not only did they rush into war, but, as Armistice Day provided imperishable testimony, they endured to the epd : —and victoriously. From a baptism of fire such as the world had never seen there emerged a new British Empire. Today there is a Confederation of British Nations indissolubly joined together by remembrance of its heroes, who joined in a common sacrifice and ’. whose bodies make sacred to Britishers the land and the sea in every quarter of the globe. It is the great army of the dead in whose memory, heads' will be bared and- silence will reign tomorrow morning, but with that eloquent de-‘ monstration of reverence for the dead there will be mingled respect for those who were spared to return to their -homeland. • Armistice Day is indeed a .day when souls are sounded to their depths.