EMPIRE'S MILLION DEAD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 97, 21 October 1926, Page 11

EMPIRE'S MILLION DEAD

TABLET IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY

MEMORIAL SERVICE AND CONFERENCE

(UniUd Press Association.— Copyright.) LONDON, 19th October. The British genjus for symbolising milestones in the Empire's history and perpetuating ideals underlying it gave in the Westminster Abbey this morning a preface to the Imperial Confqrenco as simple us it was significant. It was the Prince of Wales's unveiling of the War Graves Commission's tablet to the memory of the Empire's million dead. Representatives of every unit of the Empire stood for iiftoon impressive minutes during the dedication of the Empire's modest but hallowed tribute to the virtues of unity and sacrifice, which in a more peaceful senso the Premiers were a few minutes later to seek to apply to tho Empiro's common advantage. The Premiers, or their deputies, in the procession up the nave were paired as follow; Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Mackenzie King, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Coates, General Hertzog, and Mr. Q'Higgins (the latter on behalf of Mr. Cosgrave), Sir B. 0. M. Burdwan (India) and Mr. Monroe (Newfoundland). Not only was it a service for the dedication of the memorial, but one of blessing to the Conference, tho Dean's special closing prayer invoking tho Divine bestowal of wisdom, patience, and courage, so that the Conference deliberations should be.for the good of the nations, the welfare of mankind, and the spread of Christ's Kingdom. It was a matter of general comment that no previous Imperial Conference had such an inspiring appropriate inauguration of its labours. l