London, Nov. 14. the river, Workers from Liverpool mais nes PO Saturday, there] met the men from' Birkenhead.
is has been of re- walked to the middle, where they Wan the V.Cx. Dinnar, when the The service was held by Mr. Ancrg, Prince of Wales entertained in the the "navvies' missionary."
Royal Gallery of the House of An. unavoidable break in the Lords 321 holders of the Victoria silence was made by the foot-steps Gorae, Flanders poppies dominate 0f @ "blood-donor,"" who ran from Grins setting, and trailed over the Oxford Street to the Hospital for fables, They. were built into tall Tropical Diseases, in Gordon Street, Fepliens of the Victoria Cross and|'® answer an urgent call for the renlict® Mhickly in a. great cross London Blood Transfusion Service. He arrived there at 11.2 a.m. which had been hung at the end of the chamber, There had been the happy thought beforehand to preweribe lounge suits, und there was no discrimination of rank, Seats were allocated by the drawing of numbers and privates sat next to -wenerals, On his right the Prince of Wales had Sergeant W. F. Burman, now a chauffeur, and on jis left, Colonel Lord Gort. The gathering was unique, and the V.Ca, had come from all parts of the Empire and included veterans Rorke's Drift, the Afghan and Burma campaigns, the two wars with the Boors, and other fights of period before war on a world wide scale had been considered as a possibility. The speeches were short and, when the Prince rose, he was greeted with a storm of cheering and "For he's a jolly good fellow" was sung. with greater gusto than can possibly have been Heard before, One man said that the dinner was worth coming' millions of miles to see, and this. was the general opinion on this gest remarkable dinner that has ever been held in London.
On Saturday, the day preceding armistice Day, services were held in Westminster Abbey and all the churches. Then, on MonJay, came "Armistice Day itself, when the two minutes, silence was observed at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day '@f the eleventh month in the eleventh year of the Peace. The absence of the King was keenly felt, but all remembered that it was just a year ago since he was so gravely ill. The Prince of Wales, Hrstead, stood in the midst of countless thousands, representing his father. Dramatic stories of the rear silence have been received {rém all parts, Lady Haig, before Jeaving London for Liverpool in Lady Bailey's aeroplane at 8.25 aim,, visited Smithfield Market, St. Bartholomew's Hospital and Covent Garden, She reached Liverpool five minutes before the silence, and otood with bowed head in the rai until the two minutes had passed. Then she motored to Birkenhead to Jay a wreath on the Cenotaph there, and finally returned to Liverpool to open the Douglas Haig Memorial Homes. Her son, the young carl, took part in the service at the Stone of Remembrance in Edinburgh.
Corporal J. E, Thoina'y who, it claimed, fired the frst. shot! la the war, weleonied home at South fampton Docks his old colleagues the 4/7th. Dragoons, who were the first to take German prisoners and the first to enter Germany after the Armistice. A. Union Jack flew over Rotherhithe Town "Hall. for The. first tine in ten years, the! Red Flag having been torn down cly. young men who climbed the Hagstast, greased the pole, and cut the halyards. small boy arrived at the Disabled ex-Service Men's Exhibition et the Imperial Institute, early yesterday, with 127 farthings, which he had saved to buy something from the disabled men. He. spent the whole of his farthings on penny poppy. the evening, there was a stirring Festival of Remembrance and Empire by 10,000 ex-service men and women at the Albert Hall, 'They were headed by the Prince of Wales and nearly 300 V.Cs., and thousands of people besieged the hall in the The old war songs' were 31 id there were massed bands of the Brigade of Guards and the skirl of the pipes. Then came the march of the V.Cs—not march of pageantry, but of in civilian clothes. and Glory" and the whole tremendous audience rose to its feet and sang the triumphant chorus. There Fore, Forces, and the Overseas,
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