FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21221, 30 December 1930, Page 9

FESTIVAL OF REMEMBRANCE.

' THE PRINCE’S SPEECH: LEGIONARIES AT ALBERT HALL. - (From Our Own Correspondent.) ;•, i _ ' ; LONDON, November 14. The Prince of Wales addressed 8000 . -British Legion men at the Albert Halt on Armistice night, and his speech was broadcast throughout the Kinvdomi The ’ , huge gathering occupied themselves for some time before the Prince’s arrival with community singing, which has now become - a recognised custom at these gatherings. To the Indian princes there it must have'* seemed a strange one, but they realised the discipline of the British people when r at a given signal the audience were hushed to silence. -.

This is essentially a festival of) remembrance,” said the Prince of Wales, and I Lope that it -will long remain an annual event in the calendar ol the British Legion; ; It cannot fail to, do good; in fostering the spirit of comradeship which helped us through the hard years of the war.-

Wh do not want another war." heeoutmued. “ We' must not even edntem-, plate one. Above all, we must-do our utmost to avoid any war. On the other hnnd. we must not forget the Great War. “To forget that, which means to neglect; to honour those who fought, not only the fallen, hut the survivors, is a way to breed new wars. 1 ■ -

. , It you read history you will find that m the past nations have been apt to take upi, arm's, light-heartedly,' and the reason has generally been that the rising generation never realised the horrors' that had happened before their day. ; . ‘This does not apply to-day, hpt there is a danger in the rising generation knowing little or nothing about the Great War. I * feel very strongly that it is another duty, of the British Legion to see to it that this memory never fades; and. that the youth of the Empire are never left in ignorance." , ■ JELLICOE : RECITES. ■ Earl Jellicoe, who had already proved the power of his voice by his Word of command after the Cenotaph ceremony, again demonstrated his powers of elocution when he recited Lawrence Binyon’s immortal four lines which have identified themselves with the day of Then there was a rustle in the air, as the ■ scarlet peta15—1,092,237 of them—fell from under the vast dome through the beams _of tbe searchlights on the throng beneath, s. ■

~ Then, picked out by the glare of searchlights xa a corner at the end of the hall, broke the Union Jack, fluttering bravelv as the trumpeters of the Life-Guards - sounded ' Reveille." Led by the Westminster Abbey Choir «a i • j he ,”?. a ? Be , d bands * the audience Bang Abide With_Me.” Lights went up, and they sang "God Save the King."