DEFENDERS OF YPRES.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19062, 26 July 1927, Page 9

DEFENDERS OF YPRES.

JOJBMBERED-

,v GATE

KING GEORGE.

hmtoos. July 24- • ~* that 15,000 attended » i,< f Ypr* Memorial, theliffiitedaCCOm ' Britain, as well as who saw were V*T ggf and Belgian flags. %°?*. MyiSffi hearts ar S RjSCour the British Em- ¥

[jppEST STRUGGLE 1 tf THE WAR.

-fIPPgCBATTTUDBTOTHE EMPIRE.

gp . LONDON, July 24. ill. W<rfun«ton-Evans, Minister &£ is inviting Lord Plumer to I& Yjres War Memorial tt E 6***. *& tbat ifc < Jommem ? r " Eb|i]Mnrism of men who had mainglVimconquerable * m V axi for Wimt against the bitterest onEjfajatobistayof warfare. The Si lad been erected by the GovBfraf «verr nation in the BntWSgggntith and every colony ®m!sbwJt's»id that the relatives jiiii ■io.were missing most have mm mm might have been done ISrthecr loved ones' bodies, .gKgbej would probably see that fwamtbn impossible, after reSStfta conditiona of the fighting iilTtwa salient. Yet the void MitS greater when no grave exWm?*&k to lay a token of SlMpml fulfilled this object, bemß&ijotiA now say, "He is not ftaoSl how. from Menu Gate, &flwitd'uie British and Beljb tmfrrjjn the final victorious fiajlftinrP an address after the wSmSti There is no ground b%t*matt> sacred than the aia*'«r::beca,ttse of the thouof tbouaadiafjappn woo came to Flanders fm mm and the Dominions, detomth wncper or die. It was kM moo that Ypres, from the ipm-iNpe the most decisive corJtaffb'wir. Ypres, for fifty months, Mfe%nVi threshold. It will for ;9jrjfMUi a symbol of British herogygflmance. This memorial will OTHfetb heroes, but their memWaa aitajß dwell in the hearts of. »«|pta people. .'

CHffiMONY BROADCAST.

ttUD ALL OVER BRITAIN.

mtaua in njs cabm association.) 0 ' •„ LONDON, July 24. i JfWPirt of the British Isles heard Puuulng s surprisingly good broad--JM l*d noma's unveiling of the jNfll «r memorial at the Menin iS* **&¥ t* 6 Belgians, in acknow■g*jßntwrs aid, thoughtfully rgjwjk long dfetances that Ausftp j NewZealanders had come.. •£*«• « L. Ryrie and Sir Thomas £2E*2SW Present, and there was a *Wwrtation of New Zealanders. yffiß™WJwng in tho ceremony 7g" wr L. Worthington-Evansand JTff. * n « . Catholic bishops, iWigS*,*!?""* with the Last H'&n!r? ad ,ament > the reveille, S«* gelmn and British National jjjjg"* followed by one minute's

W DEDICATION.

A TOUCHING CEREMONY.

tosa* omau, waiuss.) ,j. . RUGBY, July 24. <^J*?"? W », who was Deputy iTh^r o^, *° **"* . Bri *»* armies Flanders, dedicated the "**«« at Meoia Gate. Not the **3 SSSfitS 16 good f ffices ° f iSBa t^w Wni? ', «* whose « "ZwZZ no ground feSf £2*s *tainfi* Sa**RfrS!» I, W rt T »id that .courage and British