Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/11/11
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan
Taipei, Nov. 11 (CNA) Bells in Taiwan rang out at 11 a.m. Sunday, as the
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country joined the rest of the world in commemorating the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I.
“We are showing here in Taiwan, half a world away, our solidarity with all those in England, France, Belgium, and the other Allied countries,” Michael Hurst, director of the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society, said at an annual service in remembrance of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) during World War II.
The 21st Remembrance Day service was held at the site of the World War II Kinkaseki POW Camp in Jinguashi, New Taipei, and co-hosted by the Taiwan POW Camps Memorial Society and the British Office Taipei, to pay tribute to former POWs who suffered or died in Taiwan.
At 11 a.m., a bell in a nearby temple tolled, while the participants in the service observed a moment of silence to mark the 1918 signing of the armistice between Germany and WWI Allies, exactly 100 years ago.
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