WAR GRAVES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 189, 6 May 1920, Page 4

WAR GRAVES

UNIFORMITY OF HEADSTONES

FAVOURED. (Rec, May 5, 7.33 p.m.) ' London, May 4., The Hougo of Commons, on the Imperial War Graves Commission vote, discussed whether to adopt the Commission s proposal favouring uniformity of_ headstones in cemeteries, or to permit relatives to follow their own designs. The House generally supported Mr. Asquith, who advocated the former without distinction 'between officers and men. Mr. Winston Churchill said the Commission was considering the erection of a inemorial in the cemetery nearest the 6cene of fighting whereon the names of the missing would be inscribed, or a regimental memorial for a similar purpose. It was estimated that the completion of the Commission's scheme would tako ten years, whereas independent headatones would not be completed in the present generation. The Commission anticipated that the headstones it was providing would last a hundred yean. About two thousand stones of remembrance, weighing ten tons each, inscribed laj name liveth for evermore,' will be erected in Franco alone. They will certainly exist for 3009 years, preserving the manor? of common purpose and undoubtedly excite the wonder and reverenco of posamendment in favour of independent designs was negatived and the vnw agreed to-Imperial News Service. COMMISSION'S EXPENSES FOB THE YEAR. (Rec. May 6. 1.5 a.m.) London, May 5. The War Graves Commission's expenses' for the financial year total .£2,787,000, of which half a million falls on the. dominions and India.—AU9.-N.Z. Cable Assn.