The Archive · 1927

Old Ladies and Poppies

London, Nov. 11.

The King, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales euch paid £100 fo poppy to-day.

Women of 83, starting at 6.30 this morning, sold the last heap of poppies at 4.30 this afternoon, having filled several boxes with cheques, notes, silver and copper—British Wireless through Reuter.

London, Nov. 13.

As is usual on the Sunday follow. ing Armistice Day, there was a great pilgrimage to-day to the toph and to the Unknown] Warrior's rave in Westminster]

Abbey. queue, some hundreds of yards long, was marshalled by mounted poli and as the mourners passed the flowers were dropped at It is generally agreed that a deeper note of seriousness and restraint has marked the celebrations of the anniversary this year and there has been' an absence of any taint of exultation.

A feature of all the speeches and! newspaper comment has been an earnest demand that the mainten nce of peace shall be Brital The appeal of the Prince of Wales to Seek peace and ensue it has been wholeheartedly endorsed in all its and the imes" says that a great resurgence of a will to peace and a sober determination to translate] this will to peace into terms of British policy has above all things emerged from the Armistice core-monies—British Wireless through, Reuter.

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