CHURCH AT YPRES.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18265, 26 December 1924, Page 8

CHURCH AT YPRES.

* ~ LORD YPRES'S APPEAL. (fbou otra own coßjuesposnEirr.) LONDON, November 13. An active campaign is now being set on foot to collect enough money to build an English church in the Ypres Salient. It - will bo remembered that Field-Marshal Earl Ypres on August 4th, the tenth anniversary of Groat Britain's coming into the war, mado a stirring appeal, in his speech to the League at Ypres, for a church to be built there. This suggestion was followed up at once and strongly commended by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other representatives of the Church of England and the Army, in a letter to the Press.

Lord Ypres, in his speech, had pointed out that nowhere "in the whole battlefield area" has the Church of Eugland any place of worship "of a permanent character." It seems hardly credible that our country should not have built one Church to the memory of thoso who lie there at rest. Lord Ypres was referring, of course, to the large number of pilgrims who go all the year round from Great Britain and the Dominions to visit the graves of the armies in Flanders, and have no place, as he expressed it, "into which they can come for prayer and remembrance of their dead, and there in peace and quiet feel that appeal to service and sacrifice of which wo are ever conscious." Apart from those to whom Lord Ypres referred, there are now six hundred men employed by the Imperial War Graves Commission in No. 1 Area (Ypres Salient) to tend these cemeteries, and 200 of these men livo near Yrr»es.

Tlio idea of Ihe promoters of the scheme is to build first; the ehaacel end of the -church, and then extend it, if necessary, to hold about two hundred people. Itr is suggested that the building might be plain to begin with, and be later adorned with regimental and other memorials as time goes on.

Cheques can be made payable cither to Bishop Bury, c.o. the Ecr. B. Staunton Batty, Cornmissary, Christ Church Vicarage, Down street, London, W.l: or to Field-Marshal Lord Plumer, through' Licut.-Colonel Poole, 36 Eaton place, l London, S.W.I, and should be crossed "Lloyds Bank (6 Pall Mall, S.W.I)"; or can be paid direct to the bank, for the Tprcs Memorial Church Fund.

Professor A. M. Low, the inventor and scientist, who opened the Wireless Exhibition at the White City, She})herd's Bush, Loudon, List month, predicted that'the time will come when vision wiJl lie transmitted as well as sound. That would reduce the need for travel when they wanted to see any land or iinybody. He said. The reason why wireless interested e\»erybody was) that it represented the future of science. The most interesting discoveries were often those which had been made in the workshops of amateurs. Among the many novel inventions exhibited is a set designed for fixing to a. man's —or woman'* —hat, the wearer of which can listen in wliile walking about.