ARMISTICE DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21259, 1 November 1940, Page 7

ARMISTICE DAY

SERVICES NOT HELD

RISK OF CONFUSION

POPPY DAY AS USUAL

tomclal Wireless) (Received Nov. 1. 12.3 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 31 The King has decided that the usual Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph shall not be held this year, and the Government feels that in the present circumstances it would be preferable that the other large services which customarily are held throughout the country should not be held. In view of the risk of confusion with air raid warning signals, it would not be possible to signal the two-minutes’ silence, as in previous years. November 11 will, however, be observed as Poppy Day, as hitherto, and the British Legion is making the usual arrangements for the sale of poppies in aid of Earl Haig’s fund.

Remembrance On Sunday, Nov. 10 The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued the following announcement:

“The Government has announced that in the present circumstances Armistice Day cannot be observed in the once customary manner. While this is inevitable there will be a general desire that Armistice Day should not pass without the associations which for so long have surrounded it. Therefore, it is proposed, with the approval of the King, that Sunday, November 10, should be observed in our various places of worship and in our 1 hearts and homes as a day of 1 remembrance and dedication.

“Remembrance—We shall still remember those who fought and died for the country’s cause in the last war, and with them now those who already in the present war have given their lives.

“Dedication—We shall dedicate ourselves to the task of finishing, if it may be, the work which the men of 1914-18 sought to do, and of doing and giving our utmost to win the victory of freedom, justice and, peace. We shall dedicate our minds and wills even now to the task which will await us when this war is over—the task of bringing in a new and better order of our common life, both national and international, on the basis of Christian faith and loyalty to the Kingdom of God. “Truly by the call of this great time, the most fateful in our history, to each one of us a ‘bond is given that he should henceforth be. else sinning greatly, a dedicated ■tpirit.* ”

CRETE AND CORFU ITALIAN LANDINGS STOPPED WORK OF BRITISH NAVY (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 1, 11.55 a.m.) MOSCOW, Oct. 31 The Red Star stated that the British Navy has prevented Italian landings at Crete and Corfu. BRITISH FREIGHTERS ORDERS PLACED IN AMERICA FACILITIES IN CANADA *■ (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 1, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 Mr H. Morganthau announced that the British Government has placed orders with American shipbuilders for a large number of new freighters. A special British shipping commission has arranged that the freighters shall be the standardised 10,000-ton type, and now is investigating shipbuilding facilities in Canada. SERIOUSLY ILL SISTER OF EX-KING ZOG (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Nov. 1, noon) LONDON, Oct. 31 Princess Ruhije, sister of ex-King Zog of Albania, is seriously ill. j