AT VIMY RIDGE
TRIBUTE TO FRANCE.
United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 4.
The whole Empire was represented at Arras, Mr Stulholme representing New Zealand, when the Secretary for War '(Mr Shaw) formally presented a set of six stained glass windows for the memorial 1 chapel at the French national cemetery erected on a spur, facing Vimy Ridge, on behalf of all Governments and peoples of the Empire. Thousands of French were present. :
The Chapel stands in the midst of thirty thousand graves. The windows commemorate the Empire dead who fought on the same ground as their French' comrades. It is intended as a tribute of gratitude for French assistance for Imperial War Graves by tho generous grant of land for cemeteries. ' ■■ ■
<* Mr Shaw said this homage ami sympathy.came from the burning sun of India to the snows of Canada, from the sunny si?<as of South Africa and from the eml of the globe, Australia and New Zealand. j .
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