HONORING THE FALLEN

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XIX, Issue 6202, 26 April 1921, Page 2

HONORING THE FALLEN

ANZAC DAY COMMEMORATIONS

MESSAGE FROM GALLIPOLI

GENERAL WESTON’S TRIBUTE,

(By Telegraph-—Press Association ) WELLINGTON, this day.

Anzac Day was generally observed throughout the Dominion yesterday as a close holiday. Processions and religious memorial service)* were held at most places, and at Thames tho Gover-nor-General addressed the returned meii. The Defence Department received the following cal rib message from General Hunter-Weston from Chauak, Gallipoli:—Please have the following published so as 'to reach as many of outcomrades in Now Zealand as possible

“To tho survivors of those who .'fought at the Dardanelles on this sixth anniversary of the original landings, and in th a name of the sailors, soldiers and airmen of tho Home Glutn.try who fought by your side, I. as the old commander of the 29th Division, am participating in tile commemoration service held an Anzac Gove, and am laying on the site of your glorious achievement a wreath of wild flowers gathered from the soil made for over sacred to lus by the blood shed .in the empiric's cause. May wo who have survived do our best to spread a spirit oft cheerfulness and isplf-saeri-fiee, of devotion to duty, and of the comradeship which they so gloriously flxemplified, and so help to attain the ideate fbr which we fought.”

REPLY TO KING'S MESSAGE

LOYALTY OF DOMINIONS

By Telegraph. — Prou Association.) AUCKLAND, this day.

His Excellency tho Governor-General (Lord Jellicoe) sept the following reply to tho message from the King to the people of New Zealand on the occlusion of Anzae Day ;

‘•On behalf of .the Government and the penp’.'e of New Zealand T beg to express to Your Majesty the grateful appreciation of your sympathy, and to renew their assurance that the loyalty which the New Zealand soldiers prbvcd on the first Anaac Day remains undiminished throughout the Dominion of Now Zealand.”

THE .MELBOURNE CEREMONIES

(Australian and N.2. Cabled

MELBOURNE, this day

Ini connection with the Ansae Day celebrations the Federal Premier, Mr. W. M. Hu glue, unveiled a fine bronze siatuc representing the "spirit of war" erected in front of Parliament House. Paying a tribute to the Auzaes he declared thajb tho lauding was an imiporishablo event, marking a nepr era in the history of the British empire.

THE SYDNEY CELEBRATIONS

SYDNEY, this day

Anzac Day was celebrated with a special service in the Town Hall, attended by the Governor-General and naval ami militarv detaehmenfs.

TRIBUTE TO NEAV ZEALANDERS

RILGRIMMAGE TO GRAVES

(Received 8 a.in.)

LONDON, April ‘Jo

An Auzac Day service was held on ,Sunday on Plymouth Hoe, and alto at Walton-oii-Thamcs, whore 30.000 wounded New Zealanders wore nursed during the iwar period. The banner which the New Zealanders at 'Walton presented, hearing the names of the fallen. w:vcanied at the head of the proecssibn. which deposited flowers on the Anzacs" graves. .Similar services and pilgrimmages to the graves of the Australians and New Zealandern have- been arranged by other places for to-day.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CLUB LUNCHEON.

(Received 12,30 p.m.)

LONDON, April t>s.

Mr "Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for the Colonies, was the - chief guest of ithc Australian and New Zealand Clubs at the Auzac Day luncheon at Connaught rooms. Sir James Milts presided, and the assembly, including Sir James Allen, High Cjfthnissioner for Now Zealand, the AgentsHlenoral, Lbrd Deciois, umf Generals Sir fan Hamilton and Godley. The guests for a moment stood in silence in memory of ythc Anzacs.

"WREATHS ON S.A. GRAVES

(Received 9.3ty a.m.)

CAPETOWN, April 23

lu memory of Auzac Day many people visited the cemetery and placed wreaths on the graves of Australian and New Zealand soldiers who died. here. Sii'r Douglas Haig dedicated a memorial at Port Elizabeth to the South African artillery chips.