ARMISTICE DAY.
TWO MINUTES' SILENCE. ORIGINATOR OF THE IDEA. (Received November 17. 11.15 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 17. A letter written by the King's direction to Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, of South Africa, who was imprisoned by order of Paul Kruger in 1895 for complicity in the Jameson raid, reveals that Sir Percy was the originator of• the two minutes' silence on Armistice Day. He placed the idea before Lord Milner and tho King and Government immediately approved it. Possibly Sir Percy obtained tho basic idea from the practice at Johannesburg of blowing mine hooters at mid-day during tho war. People then stopped work for a brief space and thought of those at the front. The letter from Buckingham Palace says: "The King gratefully remembers that the idea of the two minutes' pause was dm) to your initiation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 9
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136ARMISTICE DAY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20724, 18 November 1930, Page 9
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