WAR GRAVES.
NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS. COMFORT FOR NEXT OF KIN. "It is beyond the power of anyone to describe tlie beauty of these cemeteries, where an effort has been made by those responsible to express the sorrow and affection of the British people for sons, husbands and fathers who fell amid the carnage of war. And it. was especially moving to see the quiet pride of the gardeners who tend the cemeteries and take so important a part in making them so beautiful." These lines, from a report presented to the Imperial War Graves Commission by eight members of the House of Commons after they had visited the war graves in France ahd Belgium in July, were quoted yesterday by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry. They should, he said, make heartening reading for the next of kin of so many New Zealand soldiers whose remains were interred in the cemeteries. Thirty British cemeteries were inspected by the members of Parliament, said Mr. Parry, in releasing the report. The party expressed its regret that all the world could not see the silent places, where men from all parts of the British Commonwealth lay side by side with Frenchmen, Germans and soldiers o£ other nations—a mute, unanswerable proof of human courage and the tragedy of war.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 207, 2 September 1938, Page 10
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