GALLIPOLI GRAVES.
—, —« A MASS OF FLOWERS. ONLY LIVING THINGS ON THE PENINSULA. (BI CJIB/.E— PJIPSS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT) (AUSIB4LIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, November 16. "Tho only living things on Gallipoli are the graveyards," said General Sir lan Hamilton, speaking at a war memorial service at Hornsey. "There are no villages, cultivation, shepherds, or flocks," lie said, "and every farmhouse is ruined. Only a few beachcombers are eking out a miserable existence, but tlie cemeteries are a mass of flowers, and tended as if each soldier boy had been an emperor's son."
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18233, 18 November 1924, Page 9
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