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Front Page of the Nottingham Evening Post for Monday the 11th November 1918
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SUSPENSION OF RECRUITING
CALLING-UP NOTICES CANCELLED
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The Secretary of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of national service issues the following:
The Government have decided that all recruiting under the Military Service Act is to be suspended.
All outstanding calling-up notices, whether for medical examination or service, are cancelled.
All cases pending before tribunals should be suspended.
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MEMORABLE GATHERING AT ST. MARY’S
AN IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
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Of the many notable gatherings which have taken place in the mother church of the city, none was calculated to make a deeper impression on the minds of the public that the solemn service of thanksgiving held there at mid-day today. With most of the places of business in Nottingham closing down to enable employees to attend, the great church was crowded in a incredibly short space of time, and hundreds of citizens were unable to gain admission.
After the singing of the National Anthem, Canon Field who was assisted in the conduct of the service by the Rev. W. H. J. Toleman, entered the pulpit, and addressing the congregation remarked that the news had come with such bewildering swiftness that it had been quite impossible to fix one’s thoughts on a message for the people. And yet for what occasion could one have needed a greater preparation than this wonderful day.
Dr. Field recalled the circumstances that at the beginning of the war the Germans had a representation of one of Shakespeare's plays, and had the insolence to say Shakespeare was theirs and that they had taken him from the English. Shakespeare was not to be captured. He was English through and through, and canon Field, adapting the famous words of Henry V, after Agincourt, read the following striking quotation.
Come, go we in procession to the village,
And be it death proclaimed through our host,
To boast of this, or take that praise from God
Which is his only.
Do we all holy rites;
Let there be sung “Non Nobis” and “Te Deum;”
The dead with charity enclos’d in clay;
And then to Calais; and to England then;
Where no’er from France arrived more happy men.
The hymns “O God our help,” and “Now thank we all our God” were followed by the singing of Te Deum, and after special prayers had been offered, the solemn service closed with the Doxology.
CASTLE GATE CHURCH
There was a large congregation at Castle Gate the principle Nonconformist place of worship in the city. The Rev. A. R. Henderson conducted a short service and in the course of and earnest prayer he expressed the hope that a new and better world would be formed.
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COAL RATION AND PEACE
FUEL SHORTAGE AFTER ARMISTICE HAS BEEN SIGNED
In the event an armistice with Germany being signed there will be little or no alleviation of the serious coal shortage for many months, announces the Coal Controller.
The best method to ensure keeping within the ration is to weigh your coal daily.
At any rate, every householder should weigh the contents of the kitchen and other coal scuttles, and find out how they can be adjusted to the daily ration.
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A GERMAN DENIAL
A semi-official Note for Berlin regarding Mr. Lansing’s Note of November 7th, protesting against the reported intentions of the German Government to destroy the coal mines in the occupied regions of Belgium, says the Imperial Government has scrupulously and loyally fulfilled the promises given to President Wilson in the Note of October 20th - Reuters.
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Lord Cowdray has been unanimously elected Rector of Aberdeen University, in succession to Mr. Winston Churchill.
The death occurred last night, in his 79th year, of the Ven. Archdeacon Frederic William Edmondes, of Norton Court, Bridgend.