ARMISTICE DAY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15971, 13 November 1919, Page 5

ARMISTICE DAY.

CBI-EBEATIOS* IN LONDON Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received November 13i 9.35 a.m. LONDON, November 11. Parties of Australian and New Zealand veterans will take part in a tribute of remembrance to-day. Following the solemn cenemomais in the morning, the evening will be devoted to rejoicings. Every theatre in the West End is already sold out of ©eats, and restaurants are booked. A great Victory ball is to be held in Albert Hall, and there will he many regimental gatherings, also reunions of W.A.A.C.S., W.R.E.N., and land girls and other war workers. IMPRESSIVE SCENES. AT THE CENOTAPH. Beoeived November 13, 11.55 ajn. LONDON, November 12. ■Whitehall was impassable all day. There was an amazing crowd at the Cenotaph, and many bearing wreaths were compelled to pass the Powers over the heads of those intervening. Lord Curzon and the Right Hon. Winston Churchill, many generals and admirals, and other notables stood bareheaded beside the Cenotaph during the interval of silence. Fifty thousand participated in the Salvation Army’s simple service before the Mansion House. Preceding the silence a vast crowd on St. Paul’s sang “God is oiu Help,” and the National Anthem. Silence was imoressively observed at Australian headquarters. Four buglers on the steps of the main entrance sounded the “Attention,” and everybody halted and stood at attention until the buglers’ “All Clear ’ broke the silence. Flairs on public buildings were halfmasted on Armistice Day, and the “Last Post” sounded from the steps of tee Royal Exchange. A great assemblage in front of the Mausion House sang the Doxology. The staff of New Zealand House assembled in the Mail Hall, where- Captain Donne read the King’s message, and a two minutes’ silence followed. Sir Thomas MacKenzie, as a member of the War Graves Commission, attended the ceremony of placing a wreath by President Poincare on the Whitehall Ceneotaph. No ceremony beyond the cessation of work was observed at Australia House. Immediately the maroons were fired, the roar of traffic subsided into a great silence, pedestrians remained standing bareheaded through the solemn and impressive interval. There was an enormous crowd at Whitehall around the Cenotaph, which was the mecca of the day’s ceremonial. The base of the monument was surround--ed by beautiful wreaths. President Poincare, a' few moments before eleven o’clock, placed a wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph in the presence of members of the War Graves Commission and a guard of honour with arms reversed. Mr Lloyd George, bareheaded, walked across from Downing Street, and also deposited a wreath inscribed “To the Glorious Dead.” Business at the Courts of Justice was suspended, and the lights lowered, and the Chief Justice, rising from the Bench, said, “Let us stand in memory of the Glorious Dead.”