ALL CORNERS OF EARTH

Taranaki Daily News, 1 December 1934, Page 7

ALL CORNERS OF EARTH

GATHERING AT ROYAL WEDDING UNION OF TWO CIVILISATIONS REMARKABLE SCENES AT ABBEY By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, November 29. hush of the dread high altar where the Abbey makes us we.” Kipling’s lines were never more convincingly illustrated than to-day, when, banked along its long-drawn aisle of history, a congregation gathered from all corners of the earth attended on their King and Emperor, whose youngest son was marrying the heiress to another age and another civilisation 2000 years older than the British. Above them in the fretted vault to which the pale, cold light of November could not penetrate hung in impalpable folds a thousand years of their, nation’s story. Round them were monuments and memorials of generations consecrated once and for all to that heritage of the Empire—the tomb of the Unknown Soldier—which binds them indissolubly together.