OUR WAR GRAVES ON GALLIPOLI

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 92, 13 January 1919, Page 5

OUR WAR GRAVES ON GALLIPOLI

WORK OF IDENTIFICATION,. (Rec. January 12, 5.6 p.m. ) London, January 9. Mr. Peacock, special correspondent ■fpr the United . Press, telegraphing from Clianak, says that owing to the influenza epidemic outbreak on Gallipoli 110 New Zealaners are affected, and one officer and ten men liave died. The outbreak has now subsided, and the weather Ms improved. Colonel Richardson recovered the Australian Red Cross equipment, and saved many lives. Colonel Findtay, of the Canterbury .Mounted Corps, and his working party, with a local knowledge of the ground, have camped at Anzac, and are tidying the cemeteries and identifying and registering -the known. scattered graves. ■J.he Imperial Graves legislation Unit's fifty thousand records may be inacourate. Sis ■thousand were buried at sea. _ ' '■■■■'/ Captain Biggwither, -the New Zealand representative, interviewed, states that the graves are not so bad as had been thought. He has been instructed to sjirvey the whole of the Peninsula, locato • the cemeteries ■ and outlying graves, and then submit the results separately to the London -Graves Commission and the Australian and New Zealand authorities. • - ' Mr. Peacock thinks that the' system is insufficiently definite for the Anzac graves, and suggests that jdirect authority be given to the Australian find :»e\v Zealand officers on the spot to develop a national 'Anzac scheme, and bury, the remains under national moiiumonts bearing all the names of the killed. Some members of each Gallipoli unit should be sent to apply their local knowledge for identification purposes'. The whole Aiwac area should be made sacred ..and inviolable, and protected by a responsible body in the interests of national education and patriotism for future generations.—United Service.