EMPIRE DAY.
(By Cable.) LONDON, May 25. The outstanding Australian and New Zealand function in London on Empire Day was a memorial service for the dominions' dead in Westminster Abbey at noon on Saturday. One thousand dominion troops, of whom 350 -were Australians and 100 New Zea- - landers, were present. The rest of the Abbey was reserved for relatives, of whom there were 500 Australians and 250 New Zealanders. ' . . ' When the King and Queen had taken their seats the service commenced with the. hymn "Through all the Changing Scenes." The lesson was taken from Isaiah, chapter lxi, and was followed by Parry's " I Was Glad." • • '■. S The Archbishop of Canterbury, in an' address, said that for the first history the whole Empire was athrob with one eager, prayerful purpose, one unshakeable resolve to prevent a-great wrong. Already the dominions had a share in the glorious history embodied in the stones of the Abbey, but now they_ had made their own history. For centuries to come men would tell of the indomitable prowess and the selfish devotion of the Australians, New Zealanders, and other dominion soldiers on Gallipoli, on Yimy ridge, and at Villers Bretonneux. The service closed with Kipling's " Recessional," the " Last Post," and the "Reveille."
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Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 22
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206EMPIRE DAY. Otago Witness, Issue 3403, 4 June 1919, Page 22
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