WAR EXPLOITS MEMORIALS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 37, 7 November 1919, Page 7

WAR EXPLOITS MEMORIALS

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RESERVATION OF SITES. (Rec. November G, 9.30 p.m.) London, November 4. It was announced in Hie House of Commons that the Battle Exploits Memorial Committee had received 117 claims to erect memorials by individual units. All the Australian and New Zealand claims to date have been approved. Belgium has agreed to reserve sites, including I'asschendaele, Saint Julien, Gravenstafel. Zonnobeke, Kongo, Polygon Wood, Sanctuary Wood, Hill G3, ?seuvo Eglisc, Ypres, Mpssines, Zillebr-ke, AVytschaete, Saint Eloi, Hill GO, and Kemmel. The committee states that; negotiations are proceeding for French sites, including I'oziercs, Vimy, Monchy le Preux, Bonrlon Wood, and Villors Bretonucux.

Arrangements for Gallipoli and Palestine are under discussion. Where sites are not sivon the committee undertakes to acquire the laud if the units will bear the cost of the purchase. The question of tho upkeep of the memorials has not vet been decided.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

LIVE SHELL EXPLODES ON FAMOUS

BATTLEFIELD

SEVEN MEN KILLED. (Rec. November G, 11.55 p.m.) London, November 4. A section of the British Labour Corps which engaged in exhuming isolated corpses, and rebnrying them in the new cemeteries, lit a camp fire on the famoM battlefield two miles northward of I'oel'eapelle. The heat exploded a German shell, which hilled seven and wounded three men.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.