The Archive · 1924

Armistice Day

Autumi breezes, blowing' softy] through an atmosphere bathed in floods" of golden sunshine and. atiring the pulses, rippled the folds of 'Allied flags flung' out in a gorgeous triumph of colour from every bul ing in Tokyo to-day, the sixth anniversary of the victory of mocracy over autocracy. On Sunday, there was a special service in St. Andrew's Cathedral, at which British Embassy was' fully repre-_ sented. Service men attended uniform and lent a note of sma ness and solemnity to: the servic which ended with Kipling's "Recessional" and "God Save the King." A feature of the services was the special prayer for the health and prosperity of the Royal Family. of Japan and thanks for the protection Japan has continued to afford for-feigners here. Armistice Day night saw many a re-union of old com rades in arms.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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