ARMISTICE DAY SILENCE
KING WRITES TO ORIGINATOR SENTENCE BY KRUGER RECALLED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rec. 10.15 p.m. London, Nov. 16. A letter written by the King’s direction to Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, of South Africa, who was imprisoned by General Kruger in 1995 for .complicity in the Jameson raid, reveals that Sir Percy was the originator of the two-minute silence on Armistice Day. He put the idea before Lord Milner, and the King and Government immediately approved. It is possible Sir Percy conceived the basic idea from a practice at Johannesburg of blowing the mine hooters at midday during the war; people stopped work "for a brief space and thought of those at the front.
The letter from Buckingham Palace says: “The King gratefully remembers the idea of t|e two-minute pause due to your initiation.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1930, Page 7
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