EMPIRE DAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 12779, 26 May 1909, Page 5

EMPIRE DAY.

Celebrations at Home

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received May 26, 9.0 a.m. "LONDON", May 25. Many exchange flags, including Devonport and Caversham, were unfurled. The British colony in Berlin, including representatives of all the colonies, celebrated Empire Day for the first time by a picnic on Wanu Lake. Lieut.-General Methuen addressed 1500 children at Johannesburg. Celebrations were held at Jamaica, Bermuda, Singapore, Malta, and Gibraltar. The British residents in Hong Kong collected ,£40,000 sterling, and the Chinese residents ,£I4OO to establish a Hong Kong University. The London streets were gay with Union Jacks and Colonial flags. Ten thousand children assembled at Devonport, 9000 at Acton, 6000 at Ealing, and 3000 were regaled in the Castle grounds at Windsor. The War Office issued an order prohibiting the Harrow School Cadet Corps from taking part in the celebrations in London.