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Scene at the Chinese Memorial Arch yesterday when Armistice Day was observed. (Photo, Cheng Studio),

"DOWN WITH WAR; STOP ALL THIS HYPOCRISY!"

Man's Shout Breaks Silence At Whitehall

KING UNMOVED BY INCIDENT

London, Nov, II, “ war: stop all this hypocrisy Despite the passing of years! Police grappled with the man who Armistice Day has still kept the was held to the ground until the same reverence throughout the conclusion of the Silence when he Empire as in earlles years of the was removed to the police station. observance.

The King stood dnmoved dur- For the first time in his reign. ing the Incident while the vast King George VI was the central crowd stood in silence but sub- figure at the Cenotaph ceremony sequently gave vent to their feel- in Whitehall where his Majestyings that police reinforcements accompanied by his younger were necessary to protect the man' brothers, the Duke of Gloucester from the anger of the crowd. and the Duke of Kent placed wreaths at the foot of the Ceno- taph and also at the Earl Haig

Statue.

The Queen, Queen Mary and other ladies of the Royal Family watched the ceremony from win- dows of the Home Office. The King wore the khaki uniform of Field-Marshal. The Queen was dressed in black and wore a bunch of Flanders poppies. Before leav- ing Buckingham Palace their Ma- jesties purchased poppies from a lady seller.

Women, wearing the medals of their fathers, husbands and sony predominated the huge congrega-

The Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. W. G. A. Ormsby Gore, laid a wreath at the Cenotaph consist ing of representative plants of the Colonies and Dependencies,

Their Majesties, the King and Queen, will attend a festival of re- membrance in the Albert Hall this evening while, the Princess Royal will speak lines from Law- rence Binyon's "To the fallen" at festival of remembrance in Edinburgh. Reuter.

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A MENTAL PATIENT London, Nov. 11; The Home. Office state that the man concern- ed in the Cenotaph incident escaped from a mental institutė on

tion at the Cenotaph where the September 21. Reuter.. solemnity of The Two Minutes' silence was broken by a man dash-

ing from the crowd. Breaking SHIP BLOWN ASHORE

through the ranks of naval rat-.

ings the man proceeded towards the King shouting "Down, with

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