OUTBREAK OF WAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18467, 4 August 1934, Page 6

OUTBREAK OF WAR

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY NO FORMAL COMMEMORATION (British Official Wireless.) E.ee. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 3. To-moyrow is the twentieth anniversary of the outbreak of war between Britain and Germany. There will he no formal commemoration in London, as the general feeling is that tho day needs no underlining. The British Legion of ex-S>ervicemen will, however, take part in a brief ceremony at, the Cenotaph, when the acting--11 igli Commissioner for Canada will lay a wreath as a tribute from the Canadian corps to their British comrades, and the Legion wreath will lie laid as a tribute to Canadians who gave their lives during tlic war. A party of 500, mostly widows and mothers, will leave England to-morrow to visit the graves in France and Flanders. The annual ceremony of “scattering the ashes,’’ which takes place at the huge Tynecot cemetery, Yprcs salient, will take place on Sunday. The ashes will he those of small wooden crosses placed -on Armistice Day in the Field of Remembrance in Westminster Abbey. To-morrow night the national broadcasting programme will .contain an item entitled “Twenty Years Ago.” The main course of events preceding the outbreak of the. World War will he recapitulated and nil attempt made to catch the atmosphere of those tragic days. The broadcast has been compiled from original documents by Professor Tempcrley, joint editor of the official British documents dealing with that period. Air Winston Churchill, writing in the Daily AT ail, recalling that 20 years have passed since the catastrophe broke upon tln> world, says: “We have t ravelled a sorry road since I lion. The most complete victory ever gained left, the victors more anxious and alarmed ami 'perhaps in greater danger Ilian before the war lo end war. Luckily, everyone still feels poor and Germany has not ye| finished rearming.- We know where we were in 19M, but where are wo now?’’