MEMORY LIVETH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 182, 3 August 1932, Page 7

MEMORY LIVETH.

OUR HONOURED DEAD.

Prince's Eloquent Address At

Thiepval.

BASIS OF WORLD PEACE.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 12 noon.) LONDON, August 2

In the presence of the French President, M. Lebrun, and the Premier, M. Herriot, and distinguished representatives from all parts of the British Empire, including Colonel Lascelles (New Zealand), the Prince of Wales unveiled a memorial at Thiepval to 73,000 Empire soldiers who lie in unknown graves along the Western Front.

The Prince said: "These myriad names carved in etone and printed in almost endless pages must be no mere Book of the Dead, but they must be the opening chapter in a new Book of Life, a foundation to guide a better civilisation from which war will be banished and in which national bitterness, selfishness and greed shall flee abashed.

"The first chapter will tell of the growth of a neighbourly spirit among the nations. These names testify against the past and call us to a better civilisation in which we shall at last have realised that the only sure happiness of each nation is peace and prosperity in the whole world."

Recalling the etory of the French and British commanders leading the attack at Montauban with linked arms, the Prince said: "Let us advance with that tradition towards the conquest of world peace and international amity."