The Archive · 1924

Several Churches

London, Nov. 10.

London is unusually crowded to-' Jday, not" merely because of the Lord Mayor's Show which has linked up the 18th and 20th Centuries in pageant, colour and costume, but [because of the preparations for tomorrow's ceremony at the Cenotoph in which 1,300 soldiers, sailors and airmen will participate, H, M. King George, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York wi be the principal figures in this demonstration of national mourning, which in no way diminishes in im: pressiveness with the passage of, years.

While workmen to-day were erecting barriers, thousands moved slow-round the memorial adding their: tributes to the ever-growing mound of flowers. on the plinth. Crowds also. visited Westminster Abbey, silently filing past the grave of the:

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