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PAPUANS LED PARADE
IN SYDNEY
250.000 See March
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Eighty-nine members of the
Royal Papuan and New Guinea Police Force Band
marched at the head of the Anzac Day parade in
Sydney. , m
A quarter of a million people lined city
streets in a blaze of autumn sunshine to
watch the procession of 40,000 ex-service
men.
The Governor, Lieut.-
General John Northcott,
led the marchers and the
parade commander, Lieut.-
General H. Gordon Ben
nett, was followed by VC
winners.
Men of the Second World War
1 outnumbered the old diggers by
nearly two to one.
1 Nearly 9000, many of whom
waited most of the night, at
tended the dawn service at the
Cenotaph.
A hundred people, 70 of
them First World War dig
gers, collapsed. Two were
i taken to Sydney Hospital,
j Officials of the Australian
(I Legion of Ex-Service Clubs.
!. which inaugurated the dawn
service in 1928, said the cere-
I mony was one of the most mov-
I ing held in Sydney.
1 SiepS There-
At seven o'clock last night,
; people — many with blankets
land rugs— were already waiting
in doorways opposite the Ceno
taph in Martin Place, and by
midnight hundreds were there.
The number had grown to
2000 at 3 a.m., and they then
moved from the steps where
they had been sleeping and
lined the railings.
At 4.30 a column of about 500
men. m-stly original Anzacs, led
by the Governor, halted at the
Cenotaph. After a short,
simple service Gen. Northcott
i placed the first wreath there.
RECORDS IN
HOBART
HOBART, Tuesday.— A naval
1 officer who took part in the
Gallipoli landing led a record
parade of ex-servicemen In
Hobart today. He was the Gov-
I ernnr. Admiral Sir Huah Bin-
ney, who was a gunnery officer
I j with the British Fleet at the
I Dardanelles. '
W When the parade of 4000 men
! reached the saluting base Sir
I Hugh Binney left the column to
take the salute.
The dawn service also drew
I a record gathering, which in
cluded a big contingent of orig-
inal Anzacs.
The Anzac Day parade on
Flinders Island was led by a
distinguished Australian sol-
' dier, Sir Leslie Mnrshead,
commander of the 9th Divi
sion.
He is holidaying on the is
land and was asked to lead the
parade, which comprised ex-
servicemen settlers.
Sir Leslie Morshead also un
veiled two nlaques to commem
orate Flinders Islanders killed
in the seoond World War.
NEW AUSTRALIANS
TAKE PART
CANBERRA, Tuesday.— The
dawn service at the National
War Memorial was attended by
a record crowd.
New Australians from Britain
<nd Europe stood beside officers
from the Royal Military Col
lege at Duntroon.
Special buses and a stream
of cars took the men to . the
memorial, where they had to
find their way over the lawns
by torchlight.
Chimes rang out for half
an hour before the cere
mony.
The Rev. J. E. Baskin, a
former member of the Second
AIF and. the Indian Army, con
ducted a . ha If -hour servicc-
wlvch ended at 6 a.m.
600 wreaths
in io mms:
BRISBANE, Tuesday.— Under
a grey sky 6000 people crowded
Anzac Square for the dawn ser
vice and 050 war veterans and
70 nurses in red capes and white
uniforms formed a guard of
honor at the base of the Shrine.
Six hundred wreaths were laid
at the Shrine in .,10 minutes;-
. Senator Neil O'Sullivan re
presented the Federal Govern
ment. „ . .
Grey - headed and ' feeble
mothers and young and old
widows broke down during the
address and two minutes
silence.
Morning mists hung low over
nearby mountains. The dawn
service ended on a high note of
devotion and patriotism.
SERVING SOLDIERS paid tribute. A sergeant of the Royal Australian Signals carries a wreath into the Shrine. Help
SERVING SOLDIERS paid
tribute. A sergeant of the
Royal Australian Signals
carries a wreath into the
Shrine.
CEREMONIES AT
BALLARAT
BALLARAT, Tuesday.— Tne
Cenotaph here was the as
sembly place today for the first
time for an Anzac observance.
The floodlit Field of Re
membrance contained an illu
minated white cross, with the
| tiny wooden crosses bearing the
names of the district's dead.
'After the veterans' march this
| afternoon the main commemo-
I ration service was held at the
Cenotaph,
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