Armistice Day In Tahiti
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From Our Own Correspondent PAPEETE, December 20.
BRIGHT weather favoured Armistice Day celebrations in Tahiti, and a fair crowd gathered at the Cenotaph on St. Amelie Ave nue for the impressive ceremony of remem brance.
The children from the various schools, all carrying bouquets, were out in force, so that the monument, upon which is inscribed the names of all Tahitians who died for France, was literally buried in flowers.
Later on in the day there were various amusements, but the chief attraction, as usual, was the racecouse at Fautaua. Here the “tote” was going full swing and the fact that they sometimes ran out of tickets for a particular horse seemed to matter not at all: the crowd bought the others just as readily.