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TREMENDOUS CROWDS Police Barriers Swept Aside by Tide of Humanity A REMARKABLE SCENE. (By Telegraph—Per Press Assn-—Copyright.) Received Nov. 14, 9 p.m. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, Nov. 13. One of the most remarkable scenes ever seen in London occurred at Whitehall this afternoon when pilgrims to the Cenotajxh were so numerous that the police barriers were swept away and the roadway and pavements were filled with a solid mass of humanity. There was no disorder and almost complete silence, but the police were powerless against the sheer weight of numbers. The queue covered the whole length of the road and crept at a snaii ’s pace to the Cenotaph, thousands eventually visiting the Unknown Soldier’s tomb in Westminster Abbey. Mounted police had the utmost difficulty, now and then clearing a passage for organised processions of which many, accompanied by bands, had come to pay a combined tribute. These included costermongers, *ea scouts, 400 British Fascists, 2000 re-galia-wearing members of the Order of Buffaloes, residents of the French community and a batch of the Canadian Legion of Frontiersmen.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 7
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179AT THE CENOTAPH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19998, 15 November 1927, Page 7
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