OXFORD GROUP ASSEMBLY

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3830, 6 November 1936, Page 8

OXFORD GROUP ASSEMBLY

10,000 PEOPLE OF 35 NATIONS. Nearly 10,000 people, representing £5 nations, attended the National Assembly of the Oxford Group Movement at Birmingham at the end of July last. 1 In the procession which preceded the assembly were 500 men from the men’s camp at Castle Bromwich, 100 women who have been under canvas at Oxford, a party of visitors from Ireland, and 400 people from Holland. Mr George Marjoribanks,. of Edinburgh, presided, and reports from “house parties,” including that of 1700 people from the North of England, Ireland and Scotland, assembled at Harogote, were given. At night there was a procession of ex-service men of many nations who fought at Vimy Ridge. Heading the procession were the flags of 13 nations, the Nazi flag being side by side with the French. Ex-service men representing about half a dozen countries spoke on the group movement, the speech of the Austrian delegate being translated by a German. After the reveille had been sounded about 1000 young people, representing the new generation, were drummed in by four drummers of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.