TOUR OF BATTELEFIELDS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3420, 26 February 1920, Page 7

TOU R OF BATTELEFIELDS.

VISIT TO SOLDIERS’ GRAVES. LONDON,-Feb. 23. In view of an anticipated visit to‘ battlefields and cemeteries of France‘ and Belgium during the coming: spring and summer, it is probable the Graves Commission, in order to protect visitors from excessive charge, will give their approval to various conducted tours by tourist and other organisations. Australia and New Zealand authorities decline to under}take genera.l tours of the battlefields, ‘but will facilitate bereaved relatives visiting the graves. The proposal to acquire hostels has been abandoned. ' Australia House has‘ now completed arrangements with Y.M.C.A. to reserve twelve ‘beds at their Chateaux at Ypres and Amiens, and possibly at Poperinghe and elsewhere, as may be necessary. Australian vis-itors will be accommodated a maximum two night at 7; francs for bed and breakfast. Parties leave London thrice ‘weekly. Transport represents the fcliiewf it is {hoped arrangements will be: mafia to -secure Red Cross V'ellicles‘<.i.‘:; The scheme will ‘be akrailalble-on’ the first March. I New Zealand. has; appointed Chaplain Molyneaui to"receive New ZeaFlanders at Boulogne and direct them as regards the best mear"- of reaching lthe graves, but does not under-t!=‘r.e to * cond-uiet visitors. ll ..._....._._._ | VISIT TO HEL'~-.xI)LAND. ii DESTROYING MILITARY , FORTRESS. ‘ . l - .. LONDON, Feb. 24. |’ Mr Bonar Law in the Commons said )it was not yet possible to give the {date of the next Imperial Conference. I A Naval Military Commission had {gone to Heligoland to supervise the {demolition of the fortress. * THE RUSSI.AI\" QUES’l‘lOl\’. i.-X PBJACE CONFERENCE DISCISTON l';()Nl)Ol\", February 24 The Daily Chronicle states that the Peace Coll’r,'ol'oilm- 21§_f1'co(l. upon l)r0;1d lines on the llu.-siun (lu(‘Stion, and u statcnient tlu‘-ruon will ‘pr:>l,»;ll_»l_\- 1“. .!i‘.tl<l<" in lll(_‘ (?(_m=_'_<l_- of u ddy or 1“-,,_ A NO'l‘Aßl_.l'} l"I‘lVlil.-‘.".'l“l'i_\Yil\‘v("i. PRINCICSH l‘.»\'l‘Rl'C-I_A_’.<. ,"s'(V)N L()ND(l.\'. }3‘(\l>i'llzH‘y 2-L I’rince.<'s Pa’Tl‘i(:iu’_.y son was ('lirist(‘ned at the Chapel l~‘.o_v;il_, the’ King‘, Queen .-\lt‘:\'[1llL‘ll‘1l':lll(l. many ]‘O_\'alfilis being pl'cseli’r‘. The I’l'i.nco of lfi-';l]._x_,p~ was g‘odfilfll(‘l', and gave his goilson a. £2OO silver -goblet of wate. personally (lrawn from the river JOl-dam by the Duke of (]‘ollliaug‘hl. wlicn the British rros.<e.] the river in ]£ll7_ 'l.‘Hl‘l DUBLIN PROHIBI'I,‘IOi\’ RETORT FROM CITY CIOUNCIJ). LONDON, February 24 R€'6ol‘tillg against the militar yorder forbidding persons to be abroad in Dublin Wi,lhollt a pass afternlidniglit‘ the Dublin Council has ordered the extinguishing of street -lights after 11.30, and forbidden the performance of any municipal services Tflicreafter as being ‘dangerous in the absence of ‘lighting. The Council also ret‘used'to allow municipal» Omlllflyecs to apply f*’.‘ military permits to be abroad, also it permits are obtained regardless of the Coun-N 0”“ illJ'un<-tion, t-lio Cauncil will refuse J“) P33‘ W=lg'os for work done duringi “glltless hours. ' l