WAR GRAVES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 191, 8 May 1920, Page 6

WAR GRAVES

UNIFORM MEMORIALS. London, May 5. lu connection ivith the war graves, deep feelings have been aroused throughout the country, and expressed in tho House of Commons, over the decision not to permit individual memorials. In many eloquent speeches it was mentioned .that there would be 1000 of these cemeteries, and it would take ten years before the work of erecting a uniform pattern of tomestone. would be completed. Tho support of the House for the adopted scheme was largely won by a powerful speech by Mr. W. L.' BurdettCoutts, who urged that no sense of differentiation in (fie treatment of (lie dead should be left among the relatives of. the deceased. He said tlip poor people were too generous to begrudge individual memorials, but the House ought to act for, the nation in mourning. Finally, Mr. Burdett-Coutts won the House by urging the wishes of dead officers, who would not have had any difference inclosed. He read a letter froijt Mr. Riidyard Kipling, saying that the Kipungs had not any grave to go to, as their'boy was missing at Loos, where ther battered ground gave not the slightest trace.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.