MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 April 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

WAR GRAVES. i ‘ •' (Imperial News Service). (Received this day at 12.25 p.m) ! LONDON, April 27. j Sir Rudyard Kipling in a. speech delivered in Ix»ndon, with reference to 1 the work of the Imperial War Grave-S Commission, emphasised the basic principle whereon the Commission was working, was absolute equality and permanence. He stated that no point was more insisted upon by the Imperial representatives, both from the viewpoint of sentiment and justice. He pointed out the impossibility of acceding to-•ho requests for private expenditure. The Commission aimed at making the graves uniform and identical for every man, whether a Field Marshal or camp follower. Hon. W. Churchill, in a speech, .similarly emphasised that the Dominions were contributing their quota of cxnen- ‘ diture, on the basis that the graves he equal and uniform. He mentioned I hot half a million headstones were required for graves in France and Belgium alone. ROYAL ASSENT. Reuter’s Telegrams (Received Tin’s Dav at ]2.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. Tlie Peace Treaties with Austria and Bulgaria received the Royal assent.