WAR GRAVES.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 May 1920, Page 2

WAR GRAVES.

AN ANIMATED DISCUSSION. (Imperial News Service). LONDON, May 5, In connection with War Graves, deep feeling lias been arouspd all over the country and expressed in the Commons, through the decision not to permit individual memorials. In many eloquent speeches it was mentioned there would be four thousand of these cemeteries. It would take ten years before the work of erecting uniform pattern tombstones was completed. The support of Die House in this regard was largely won by a powerful speech by Mr Rurdettr Coutts urging there should not be left among relatives any sense of differentiation in the treatment of the dead. The speaker said the poor people wore too generous to begrudge individual memorials, but the House would act fpr the nation in mourning so (hat woipqn in the tenement should not.be left in any sense, although unexpressed, (hat !>er man had made the greatest sacrifice and died the same death, for the same cause, so why should be not havp the same monument. finally Mr putts won the House by urging tire wishes of lead officers who would not’liavp had if difference, ipipogcd if solemn' piandpie upon the country, He refid a letter from Sir RudyanJ Kipling, saying Kipling’s had pot apy grave (o go to as their boy was missing at Loos, where the battered ground gave not the slighttest trace,,