LATE CABLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 71, 23 March 1923, Page 7

LATE CABLES.

NEW ZEALAND WAR GRAVES. ! ——■ i CONDITIONS ON GALUPOLI. BRITISH COMMISSIONER'S FEARS. (By Cable -Preiw A>-<n-ia lion—Copyright.> [Hi-reived I.TO p.m.) I,ON DUX. March 22. I Lieutenant Mildenhall. New Zealand represent at ivi' ;u the Craves Commission at Oallipoli, lihk nrriviil in London. He repurt= that work is proceeding satisfactorily, utilising Ita'.taii and Russian labourer-, as lirecks had lied after the Smyrna ciita*trophe. Vivo cemeteries in the Anzac urea arc completed, except tlie headstones, which have to come lrom England. Work on two cemeteries at Mudros, one at Syva and two at Constantinople are proceeding. At present Uallipoli i< occupied by 15.000 British troops, and ihe Graves Commission is rather apprehensive of trouble when the troops ure withdrawn. Tin- Turks had constructed a railway across the peninsula tn Anzac, enabling them ;<> command both sides of the New Zealand war memorials. The Xew Zealand memorial ;it Le Quesr.oy was unveiled conjointly with the French memorial in .lunc, Ceneral Joffre attending. The Messines and Oravenstafel memorials would be unveiled at the end of September. (A. and X.Z. Cable.)