The Archive · 1925

Anzac Day in London

Vast and Reverent Crowds About the Cenotaph London, Apr. 25.

Remarkable scenes took place to-gay at the Cenotaph. The High Commissioners had to struggle with a vast crowd, wreaths on the occasion of Anzac Day.

Thousands of men and women from Yorkshire and from Wales who had arrived to attend the Cup. Final, wearing football colours, yanged themselves on both sides of the road, all reverent and qui contrasting with the previous hilary and excitement, while those journeying the streets in chara-banes and afoot doffed their weirdly-coloured hats. The sudden silence, the cease fire of the rattles, the hushing of the clamorous voices was more impressive. than an. organized demonstration of respect.

The crowd waited all the morning. Bunches of flowers, including. scores of button-holes plucked impassively from the lapels of wearers, twere Inid at the foot of thi Cenotaph—Reuter,

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

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