GREAT GATHERINGS IN LONDON
iSTREETS CROWDED WITH ■ CONY AiLESCENTS. (Australian and l N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. Aug. 5, 1 p.m.) LONDON, Aun, -4. London was crowded with convalescents and hospital suit® driving to the Albert Hall meeting' to ce-I'ehrate the second 'anniversary of the war, Five . thousand men from, the various hospitals attended, including hundreds of Atizacs and hundred's of sailors wounded 'in the Jutland, 400 of whom-Qvavelost a limb. General Sir iSrhith'-Dorrien presided': • Three patriotic meetings.'in various parts of the.' country passed , ( soiuticais to continue the war to a victorious end'. Siimilajr Australian' and - New Zealand' gatherings were "held.- Employers of many stores and 'business houses granted an hour's leave for employees to attend services. ( . ■ . . .• The primate preached' at Buckingham (Palace, where the King and Queen attended. ' Eight thousand l troops attended a service at Aldershot. ; 1 • . ■ The Navy League Fight for the Right Movement organised; many, meetings; MOTION DEFEATED AT ' RUNAJNGA. (United Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, This 'Day. At a big meeting the-war celebration mbtiOn was-.passed unanimously. At Runawga the motionsuggested jpy the Premier wast defeated, the motion being 24 to 12.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 5 August 1916, Page 5
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