BRITISH WAR GRAVES

Hokitika Guardian, 4 November 1929, Page 1

BRITISH WAR GRAVES

IN BERLIN. MEMORIAL SERVICE HELD. [United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Nov. 2. “The Times’s” Berlin correspondent states that there 41'e thirty Australian graves and those of three New Zealanders among 1172 comprising the British war graves in a cemetery in South-western (Berlin, where Bishop Fulham, as the local Anglican Bishop, conducted a memorial service. The War Graves Commission has purchased iiie site in perpetuity, hut it does not resemble the other war graves cemeteries, because it is not cleared, and there is no grass It lies among pineland country, on which turf does not grow. Consequently, the Commission has left the trees standing, and has cleared the undergrowth. Thus the dead repose in rows in a natural woodland clearing, interspersed with pine trees. There were delicate reasons why the ceremony should he deferred, but improved Anglo-German relations enabled to-days’s ceremonV to be held It was of the simplest nature, and was attended only by the British colony, including the Ambassador and the Embassy stall'. The Bishop, in the course of his address, said that .the dead, if they could send a message to the living would use their endeavours for peace. The service was concluded by the singing of the National Anthem,