The Archive · 1924

Unknown Warrior

Resides services at the Cenotaph and the Abbey to-morrow, there will be services in numerous churches in London.

The two minutes silence will be observed throughout the country at 11 o'clock, the signal for which will be given in London by firing a gun Hyde Park and simultaneously brondeasting the first stroke of Big Celebrations at Home and Abroad: Impressive Services in England and America London, Nov. 11, Armistice Day was celebrated here in fine weather. The great silence was most impressive, mil-ions standing bareheaded for two minutes while all traffic ceased. The crowd at the Cenotaph was a record, a packed mass of people extending from Trafalgar Square to Old Palace Yard. Warm sunshine, which is unusual in November, lit up the splashes of colour in. whi the whites of wreaths and the reds of Flanders poppies were prominent. The Cenotaph stood out in the clear air amid a rectangle of troops and ex-service men with the massed bands of the Guards. The Queen watched the ceremony from

—Reuter. the window of " Government office New York, Nov. 11.

Armistice Day was observed throughout the country. Patriotic ceremonies were held in most cities and the two minutes' silence was observed on the signal by bugle and taps wirelessly were special services parades of troops and balls, President, Coolidge visited the! Unknown Warrior's tomb in the Arlington Cemetery.

Crowds went or a pilgrimage to Arlington wh hundreds of wreaths were deposited. Wreaths were also deposited on the tomb of Ex-President Wilson—Reuter's American Service.

London, Nov. 11, Traffic was held up for two hours in Dublin to-day, such enormous crowds participating in the Armistice Day celebrations.

Worldwide celebrations are corded by Reuter telegrams.

A public holiday was declared in France. All the shops were closed and the streets beflagged. The chic? ceremony took place at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior.

Marshal Foch deposited a wreath of palms and M. Hertiot a wreath of flowers at the memorial tablet to the British fallen at Notre Dame.

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