ARMISTICE DAY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 419, 10 November 1930, Page 6

ARMISTICE DAY

COMMEMORATION SERVICES THE NEAREST SUNDAY WANGANUI OBSERVANCES Armistice Day was fittingly commemorated in Wanganui yesterday, the nearest Sunday to the 12th. anniversary of the signing of an agreement between the Allied Powers and Germany to cease hostilities in the world war. In the afternoon a parade uf Girl Guidos and Boy Scouts took place and there was an impressive service nt the Opera House at which the Rev. E. TCox was the speaker. Under the auspices of the Wanganui branch of the League of Nations Union a public commemoration service was hold in the Opera House at night. His Workship the Mayor (Mr W. J. Rogers) presided. The Mayor, introducing the speakers, said that the Armistice had brought immense relief to a war-weary world. The conflict between 1914-18 had resulted in the crood thing—The League of Nations, which had arisen to end war. With the passage of time the mind became loss sensitive to the sufferings of war and Mr Rogers quoted the exPrimo Minister of Great Britain (Mr Stanley Baldwin) as saying: | Ono more war in the West and the civilisation of the ages will fall with as great a crash as did R0m0..-’’ Need For Goodwill The Hon. W. A. Veitch stressed the fact that goodwill and friendship among the peoples of the world wore essential to the foundation of peace. “There is a greater need for mutual goodwill and friendship among ourselves and the people of the world,” he said- “The churches are doing all they can, Statesmen are doing their best, but unless the people break down the barriers of distrust among themselves the peace of the world will not be assuredThere is nothing which costs less, yet nothing which is worth more than goodwill among the peoples of the earch.” War Denounced

Mr Hugh C. Jenkins vigorously condemned war, pointing to the fact that a strav pistol shot in the Balkans in 1914 had set the world afire and. even now, civilisation stood in the shadow of such another occurrence* It behoved the peoples to grapple wnh the situation and guard against whet would be the downfall of civilisation. The speaker eulogised the League of Nations and referred, in detail, to the work it had accomplished in the interests of international peace and freedom of mankind. European Situation The Rev. Creed Meredith dealt with the European situation and five different schools of thought in Europe with regard to the League. He said that at such a meeting as that held last night men and women stood for the same ideals as those who had sacrificed themselves in the war. Re urged that men and women should think peace and pray peace. (The addresses delivered by Mr Jenkins and the Rev. Creed Meredith arc reported fully elsewhere in this issue). The Rev. H. G. Goring led the Lord's Prayer and the Salvation Army Bund, under the baton of Bandmaster A- Lindsay, played the accompaniments for the two hymns ‘‘The Old Hundredth,’’ and “O God of Bethel.” The band also played sacred music prior to the commencement of the service. SCOUTS AND GUIDES AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. Speaking at an impressive and wellattended commemoration service at the Opera House hi the afternoon, which was attended by Girl Guides and Scouts, the Rev. E. T. Cox made a plea for all to work for peace. There were 2,000,000 Bov Scouts throughout the world, and f,000,000 Girl Guides. Their aim was to keep alive the remembrance of those things that were heroic, and of those things that were good to live for, honour, truth, purity and goodness. They were all joined together to prevent the occurrence again of such a calamity as befel the world in August, 1914. If all thought of peace, and were earnest in their demre for peace, they could be as a junior League of Nations. That thought could be sent to every nation and every class and condition on the globe. They should foster that great spirit of brotherhood and of scr vice to mankind. They iu thought, word and deed should strive to unite in one great brotherhood, so that energy, enterprise and wealth should be used to promote well-being and not destruction. In the course of his address, the speaker took his audience on two pilgrimages, one to the Scottish National Memorial at Edinburgh Castle, the other to the tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey, describing each. The service was conducted by the Wanganui Ministers’ Association. The Rev. 11. G. Goring and the Rev. Mathieson led the assembly in prayer, and Adjt. Briddock read a passage from the Scripture. Among those present were the Ron. W. A. Veitch and the Mayor, Mr W. J. Rogers.