ALLIES' SHELLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 95, 23 April 1931, Page 7

ALLIES' SHELLS.

FOR TURKISH MEMORIAL. LONDON, April 18. The attention of the Turkish people has been drawn, says the Constantinople correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian." to the neglected state of the Turkish war cemeteries on Gallipoli, and to the fact that there is no Turkish war memorial at the Dardanelles. Politicians deplore the poverty of the still headstoneless Turkish cemeteries, which contrast with the perfectly kept Allied war graves, visible far out at sea. They propose to support a bill allotting a certain proportion of the revenue from every province towards building a Turkish war memorial on Gallipoli, which will be the most prominent and imposing of all the monuments on the peninsula. Meanwhile, a memorial composed entirely of Allied'shells will be erected outside the military museum at Stamboul. Five hundred shell-cases, including eome from the Queen Elizabeth, will be built up in the shape of a cone between two marble columns. Each shell will be inscribed with its type, provenance, and the yea,r when it as fired. The memorial will have a utilitarian value, as it will be used to instruct military cadets to distinguish the various types of shell.