The Archive · 1914

Our London Letter

TRAFALGAR DAY IN LONDON — THE DARKENED CITY — GERMAN WAITERS AND GERMAN SPIES — From Our Own Correspondent

London, Oct. 21.

Continuous streams of men, women and children, among whom are hundreds of Belgians, are to-day slowly passing round the Nelson Column in Trafalgar Square, admire ing the beautiful wreaths and other floral decorations with which the whole pediment is completely covered. Magnificent devices have been sent by or on behalf'of branches of the Navy League in all parts of the British Empire, and by many vessels of ths British Navy; but naturally those which attract the greatest, attention are the memorial wreaths for our lost ships, the Amphion, Pathfinder, Aboukir, Cressy, Hague, Hawke and th> submarine which sank in Australian waters. Of the Aboukir there is a model formed

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