ARMISTIGE DAY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 8 November 1919, Page 4

ARMISTIGE DAY.

ANNIVERSARY NEXT WEEK. KING’S EXPRESSED DESIRE. FOR SHORT SUSPENSION OF ALL ACTIVITIES. - (United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 7. The following message from the King lias been received by the Gov-ernor-General;-- * To All My People. : Tuseday next, ‘ November 11th, vis the first aniversary of the which stayed the world-wide carnage of the four preceding years arid ed the victory of right and; freedom. I believe my people in every t paTt'oi the Empire fervently wish. to . perpetuate the memory of that great (deliverance and of those who laid l .down their lives t 0 achieve it. To afford an opportunity for the univeriial expression of this feeling, it is/my, l desire and hope that at the hour when the armistice camfi into forcep' the eleventh hour of the elev6nth'"May of the eleventh month, there in&y be for the brief space of two. ‘minutes tt complete suspension' of all odr normal activities. During that /time, except in the rare- cases ‘-whisiffe this may bo impracticable, MI •wor)c j j’! sound, and r all locomotion : should 'ceAse, so that in perfect stillness the /thoughts of*- everyone may be concentrated' on . the reverent remembrance of tho glorious dead. N 0 elaborate organisation appears to be necessary. *At a givensignal, which can be easily to ’ suit the circumstances; of each locality, I believe we. shall -aJI * gladly interrupt, our business ati<jl pleasure, • whatever it may he, and unite m this simple service of' silence. and remembrance. .. -> ■ '* c (Signed) GEORGE R.T/'" - The Prime Minister stated, this evening that artahgeraentg wo,uld 'b« put in hand to seepre -as far-‘as r epos* sible a general observance, throughput the Dominion cf two minutes’ silence 1 on Tuesday next., 'Trains ‘ stopped on the railways,* a request would by > made that thfcre,. a cessation - of traffic- on tho and every effort would-be njade-.tu have work suspended in schoeta, r '6b°l?® , } and factories, and.to J -Spcurey coin-, plete silence: 1 This conform with/what was .ittte|»dfed -to be donc'in ‘th<L.United /KiogdptfeU and thp Prime MinUter, said >quifie sure th&re woiild be acr- ; quiescence ’in the* desire' ‘of T&f esty qi\. the part, of, tho New Zealand as well. as *in r other p&rls of the Empire. ’/ < I P ‘ PRESIDENT -;■■■ London. ,■ i « * i • v ./ (By Electric Telegraph—Cjpyrighii, Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) - LONDON, Preparations are'being made _ tp . give special brillianc* to •K.’/Piotbws state -drive through ‘-■'’Lbudbih; qn the annivci-gary of Armistice Day. - - i i,iiniiinijh^i^-- L ’.;A- J / s>,\