THE ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13908, 8 November 1919, Page 1

THE ARMISTICE ANNIVERSARY.

REMEMBRANCE OF THE HEROIC • DEAD. ; (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, November ,7.// -The following .message from the King : was received by the Governor-General: "To All My People. "Tuesday next-, November 11, is the first anniversary of the armistice which stayed the world-wide carnage of four preceding years, and marked the victory or right and freedom. I believe my people in every part of the Empire fer-vont-ly wish to perpetuate the .memory of that great deliverance, and of .thosewho laid down their lives to achieve it. To afford" .opportunity for imiyersal, expression of this feeling, it is my desire and hope that at the hour when the armistice came into force —the eleventh hour of theteleventh day of the eleventh month —there may be for a brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all normal'activities. During that time, except in rare cases, where this may be. impracticable, all work, all s<mnd;; : ias!?d>''all locomotion should cease, so thsff|iiSperfe«t stillness the thoughts of every&iTO may be concentrated on the reverent remembrance of the glorious dead.' No elaborate organisation apea'rs to be necessary. At a given signal, which caii easily be arranged to suit the circumstances of each locality, I believe we shall all gladly interrupt our business and .pleasure, whatever it may be, and' unite in this simple service of sil'ehce and remembrance.. "(Sgd.) George, R. 1." ' Tho Prime Minister stated this evening that arrangements would be made to secure as far lis "possible the general observances l ' throughout the Dominion of two intimites' silence on Tuesday next. - Trains yvould be stopped on the railways. A request would be made that there , should 'be a... cessation of traffic ou the streets, and every effort would be made to have work suspended m schools, shops and,-factories, and to secure complete silence. This procedure would conform with what, was intended to be done in the United Kingdom, and the Prime Minister said he was quite sure there would be a" ready acquiescence in the desire of iis Majesty, on the part of citizens of New Zealand, as well as in other parts of the Empire.