Passing Of The Unknown. The first anniversary of the Armistice had a great meaning for the country. Armistice Day tlis year had a still greater significance. lt may be that never again will national senti- mont in relation to the war have such an opportunity for expression as was given by the unforgettable ceremonies of yesterday. There were two outstanding events wlich cannot be repeated. The King unveiled the Cenotaph in its permanent form, and an Unknown W'arrior was buried in Westminster Abbey whose grave for tlis and future genera- tions will be a place of pilgrimage for the British race. The King, the Royal Princes, Lords, and the people, all on a common footing, shared in a mighty tribute to the glorious dead. It waas a day of mellow sunshine. In the early morning mist lay lightly over London, but the vapotus dispersed as the hours were ntumbered, and at 9 o'clock the weather was the best that a November day can give. Long before dawn crowvds had gathered in the hope of getting as near to the Cenotaph as possible when the barriers shutting off lVhitehall should be opened, but the ceremonies did not begin until nearly 10. At that hour the coffin containing the body, which had been brought from France on Wednesday, was reverently lifted from the saloon at Victoria Station, where it had rested during the night, The following inscription was on the wreath which the King placed on the coffin of "The Unknown Warrior" in Westminster Abbey yesterday: In proud memory of those Warriors who died unknown in The Great War. Unknown, and yet weli known; as dying, and behold they live. GEORGE R.I. and placed on a gun carriage. The casket was covered with a Union Jack hallowed by many memories of the war, and on the flag soldiers placed sidearms and a steel helmet. Field-marshals, admirals, and Air Marshal Sir Hugh Trenchard took up positions as pall- bearers, and to the roll of muffled drums, a procession, as representative of the Services as it could be made, moved out from the station into the crowded streets. A long route to the Cenotaph was traversed, and for nearly an hour silent but impressive homage to the dead was paid by hundreds of thousands through whose motionless ranks the cortyge pawsed. THE CENOTAPH UNVEILED. In Whitehall, when the procession approached, the Cenotaph, freed at last from scaffolding and tarpaulins, was draped with the National Slag. The King, in the uniform of a Field- Marshal, stood near the Colonial Office wtaiting to step into his place as Chief Mourner. Near him were the Prince of Wales, the Duke of York, Prince Henry, the Duke of Connaught, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Prime Minister, ond many members of the Govern- ment. The King's first act after the arrival of the procession was to step forward to the coffin and place upon it a wreath of laurel leaves and crimson flowers. A brief service followed. Massed choirs from the city churches led the multitude gathered around in singing the hymn, " O God, our help in ages past," and the Archbishop of Canterbury recited the sentences of the Lord's Prayer. Then as Big Ben, in the clock tower of the Palace of WVestminster, sonorously sounded the hour of eleven the King faced tbh 4 Cenotaph, and placed a finger on a buttol | Veiling flags fluttered down, and the memori&t which authority caused to be created for a temporary occasion, but which the nation, with one voice, demanded should be made permanent on its original site, stood revealed in simple grandeur for all to see. At this high and solemn moment all noise ceased. The silence had begun, men and women disciplined their bodies so that for full two minutes scarcely a finger moved. The stillness continued unbroken until buglers sounded the appealing notes of the " Last Post." There was little more to come before the journey to the grave of the Unknown Warrior was resumed. The King placed the first wreath at the base of the Cenotaph. The IPrince of Wales gently laid his tribute of laurels by the side of that of the Sovereign, and the Prime 1Minister, the Adjutant-General, and the representatives of the Dominions and Colonies added homage for the United King- dom and the Empire. AT THE ABBEY. The last scene in the Abbey has no parallel in history. Simplicity dominated all that was done. The coffin, borne by non-com missioned officers of the Guards, passed through the lines of a hundred wearers of the Victoria Cross. Famous men of the Forces were the pall-bearers. The King walked behind, and was followed by Princes, peers, and statesmen. Choir and congrega- tion sang the hymn "Lead, Kindly Light," and as the Dean recited the committal sentences the King scattered over the coffin soil brought from the battlefield. Two more hymns were sung, one of them Kipling's " Recessional," and the service ended with the throbbing of drums and the clear call-of bugles sounding the ReveiDe. Tens of thousands of people who could lhave no place by the Cenotaph or in the Abbey during the morming walked past the memorial or the grave of the warrior during the after- noon and evening in columns which were never broken. Men and women 'waited long hours to pay this tribute, or even to take a place at the end of the long fles of those who wished to have some part, to matter how humble, in the proceedings of the day. To-day the pilgrimage will be renewed. The Dean- of Westminster announces - that the grave in the Abbey will be left precisely in the same condition to-day as yesterday, and the Abbey will be open from 10.30 a.m. for those who wish to pass by. The full story of Armistice Day, 1020, is told in a special supplement issued gratis with The S'imes to-day. PASSING OF THE UNKNOWN. MEMORABLE SCENES BRITAIN'S TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD. THE GREAT SILENCE