ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE

Southland Times, Issue 24273, 2 November 1940, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE

No Cenotaph Service In London ARCHBISHOP’S CALL TO DEDICATION (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright) (Received November 1, 5.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 31. The King has decided that the usual Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph shall not be held this year, and the Government feels that in the present circumstances it would be preferable that other large services, which are customarily held throughout the country, should not be held. In view of the risk of confusion with air raid warning signals, it will not be po«uble to signal, the two minutes’ silence as in previous years. November 11 will, however, be observed as Poppy Day as hitherto, ana the British Legion is making the usual arrangements for the sale of poppies in aid of the Earl Haig Fund. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Cosmo Lang, has issued the following announcement: “The Government announces that in the present . circumstances Armistice Day cannot be observed in the once customary manner. While this is inevitable, there will be a general desire that Armistice Day should not pass without the associations which so long surrounded it. Therefore, it is proposed, with the approval of the King, that Sunday, November 10, should be observed in our various places of worship and in our hearts and homes as a day of remembrance and dedication. “Remembrance —We shall still remember those who fought and died for their country’s cause in the last war, and with them now those who have already in the present war given their lives. , . “Dedication—We shall dedicate ourselves to the task of. finishing, if it may be, the work which the men of 1914-18 sought to do, and of doing and giving our utmost .to win the victory of freedom, justice and peace. “We shall dedicate our minds and wills even now to the task which will await us when this war is over—the task of bringing in a new and better oi der in our common life, both national and international, on a basis of Christian faith and loyalty to the Kingdom of God. “Truly by the call of this great time, the most fateful in our history, to each one of us a bond is given that he should henceforth be, else sinning greatly, a dedicated spirit.”

RESCUE OF SURVIVORS FROM TANKER MEDALS AWARDED TO TWO SPANIARDS (British Official Wireless) (Received November 1, 7.30 p.m.) RUGBY, October 31. The King has awarded the silver medal for gallantry and humanity to Jose Otero Caamano and Juan Mascato Panan, members of the crew of the Spanish fishing vessel, Meco, who showed the greatest disregard for their personal safety in rescuing survivors from the oil tanker, Telema, which had been attacked and set on fire by an enemy submarine near the Spanish coast last May,