THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17809, 7 July 1923, Page 5

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER.

♦ ALLIES' CEMETERY AT VEVEY (KtOH OUB OWN COBMBPONDEHT.) LONDON, June 1. Sir James Allen will have an extremely busy time during this coming week-end. To-morrow (Saturday) he is going up to Camoridge to attenu a u.nner ot the Italeigh Club, at which a general discussion will be held on a

uuuioer ol important imperial quesuoiuj. At eievtu o'ciuck on cue suimuj, imj wia um.e tiuin eu iuuw ior vevcj, in Switzerland. It is at tnis piace tnut ail tne Domes or tne soidiers or tne Allies, wuo died in owitzenunu, have Ueen concentrated in a single cemetery. iuajor ue la j-iarpe, ol \evey, was tne pnme mover in tins project, and tne corporation ot tne town were kind enou&n to present a plot ot land ior the cemetery, liiamcs to the well-Known nrms, Messrs iNestieg and Messrs iiohier, au tne traiispoit necessary ior tlie concentration was done lor practically nothing. Now a memorial cross has been erected, and on Alonday a public ceremony will take place,"and th© monument will be unveiled. air jk.mes Alien lias aiways taken an interest in this project, as several New Zealanders are buried in the new cemetery, but apart from this personal interest he has been asked by the War uraves Commission to represent Great Britain, and, in fact the whole Empire, at the ceremonv.

After the unveiling the High Commissioner wi.l go to ijteneva, where he is due to attach his signature, on behalf of New Zealand, to a protocol to Article 16 of the Covenant. This particular article deals with the question of bringing economic pressure to bear on nations threatening war, and certain alterations are being made.