ARMISTICE DAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 10

ARMISTICE DAY.

TO-MORROW'S ANNIVERSARY.

TWO MINUTES' SILENCE.

SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICES.

Armistice Day will be observed to-mor-row, as on past anniversaries, by two minutes' silence at 11 a.m., wherein the Empire, in keeping with the proclamation of His Majesty the Kins, that instituted this memorial in 1919, will pay its tribute of remembrance and homage to the valiant dead. Falling as it does for the first time on a Sunday there will not be the same impressive public observance of the day that comes from the sudden cessation of a busy city s activities." "Citizens are requested, however, to maintain the period of silence in their own homes just as in other years it Has heen observed in. the streets and business places of the city. The tribute will thus become an universal one, and the day be invested with a solemnity and reverence befitting so great an anniversary. Arrangements have been made with the Defence authorities for a gun to be fired from Albert Park at 11 a.m. as the signal for the period of silence. ' As in- other years the tramway service will be suspended during the two minutes, all cars pulling up promptly at the hour stated. Any other services maintained by the City Council will be similarly suspended until the signal is given, to resume. Special Armistice Day services will be held in -the churches, starting at 10.45 a.m. instead of 11 a.m. in order that the two minutes' silence may be observed. Officers of the Defence Department will attend St. Mary's Cathedral, where Canon P. James will give an address on " Is it Peace?" The evening service will be of a commemorative character, the subject of the address being the League of Nations. The services at St. Matthew's will also emphasise the special significance of we day, and will be attended by members of the Returned Soldiers' Association. The morning service will open with the hymn always sung at the cenotaph in Whitehall on Armistice Day, " 0, God, Our Help in Ages Past," followed by a prayer for the fallen and thanksgiving for victory. As the two minutes' silence falls the "Last Post" will be sounded by Buglers from the top of the church tower, followed by the playing of the "Dead March" by the organist. The anthem, "Crossing the Bar," will be suns by the choir, and a special address will be delivered by the vicar, the Rev. C. V.- Grant Cowen, the service concluding: with the hymn, " For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest." The evening service will also b« one of commemoration. • The Victoria League will place flowers on the soldiers' graves in the Auckland cemeteries in the afternoon, and gifts of blooms for this purpose will be received at the league's rooms this morning.