GALLIPOLL.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 17017, 14 December 1920, Page 7

GALLIPOLL.

THE ANZAC MEMORIAL rKOGSESs or the work. (SOCIAL TO "Tin: TRESS.") ' "WELLINGTON, December 13. Tho Minister of Defence has received (Mail«l plans of iho memorial to tho acv _An.str:ilians and New ZealandCTB—who foil on wallipoli. It is to.ba erected at Lone fine, the scene of whal was tho mof-t determined and ulocdicst firrht on tiu: whole rjonsnsula. Tho Australians ntt-cked n series of stron--iv-fortificil trenches, .-.nd when they reached them ihry found that tho Turks wero protected by solid In-art cover. TberoNvere a. thousand dead Awstrnlians and Turks in tint vory limited trench area after the (i-nt was -.von by tho brave Australians, and there were, no fewer than seven Victoria Crosses awarded for deeds of gallantry in that one fiidit. In connexion with the memorial, tihero is to lie a sma.l chapel, nwrbls-paved, and a record room. and olive trees are to be. planted about it. Tho cost of tho memorial will lw included in tho cost of the cemeteries that arc now established in various parts of tho Anzac area. Plans of these cemeteries have also reached Sir Ilea ton Rhodes, and an examination of them leads one to tho conclusion that the work has been well done. It is understood that the concentration of tho bodies in the Anzac area, agreed to by the Imperial Graves Commission, lias been completed, and tho report of Sir John Burnet, U.S.A., states tSiat there aro no longer any isolated graves. There*are in all 2-1-cemeteries. The smallest of those are known as tho Flukes' Plateau and the Canterbury cemeteries. Tho former contains nearly all Australians, and tho latter all Now Zealand graves. The largest cemetery ie that known as Chunuk Bair, containing 2GO graves, nearly all of whicfli arc tho graves of New Zealnndcrs. It is apparently on Rhododendron' Spur, near tho _ apex, whirh is just under Chumik Bair, and overlooking tho farm, a little plateau on the hillside where there were many Encli'h nhrl Ghurka dead, who lay there unbnried in a, sort pf No-man's-kvnd after tho Suvla landing. There is also a cemetery at "The Farm." Other cemeteries nre dotted about tho fighting area and the benches of Anzac. Tenders were to be issued not only for the headstones and the work entailed in Mieir erection, but also for the Anano memorial nt Loho Pine,. The which -will close in February, are to be called for in London, Egypt, Constantinople, and Athens. It is hoped that tho work will be started in tho spring of next year. The Toad construction preliminary- to tho work i 3 now in hand. It is being dono "by local labour. In.iihe cemeteries thero are to bo 'stones of remembrance." One of the plnns shows an inscription for these, Their name lireth for ever." Only .those who havo been on Gnllipoli, and , who know the isolated nature of tho country, can lhavo any idea of the magnitude and cost of such work, or the difficulties that must bo overcome in connexion with it. Appnrentlv excellent progress has been made. *