GRAVES IN FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 2

GRAVES IN FRANCE

GENERAL PACTS CHARGE.

A complete scheme for the care of Australian grave* in ha« been outlined and accepted by General Pau, head of the French Mission, according to a statement made recently' by the Premier of New South Wales. "General Pan hag undertaken to charge himself with the formation of a permanent committee in France, the .duties of which ■ would be to identify, preserve, and adorn the graves of Australian soldiers who have fallen at the "front, and also to send all possible information to members of their families in Australia,?' said Mr. Hohnjtn, who retains a lively recollection of:his visit to France in th« height of the war. On this committee-, he explained, the High. Commissioner and the Agents-General', of V Australia would have a distinguished place. It would, also consist of French resident*, who would be anxious. toj.digplay, their sympathy with the famiHes pf deceased • Australian soldiers. ; This committee, for example, will be prepared to • take photographs of the graves'and /forward them to relatives here, arid "as..far as possible place them in close- touch with the,circumstances which snrrpnnd the banal of their soldier sous. . In the event of the relatives of-Aus-tralian eoldiers visiting France: the scheme agreed upon between • Mr. Holman and General Pau is that ;«ueh committees would be in a position to taka them to the actual burial-place, and generally to guide them and assist them. In the initi?! stages of such a work, it is the hope of General Pau that he will be assisted by the 1 commissioners of the Red Cross, War Chest, and other officers of the Australian patriotic funds now abroad, who would, he thinks, take a place on such a. committee. Ultimately, however, on the return j)f these people to Australia, the work will t?e left to French friends, aided by the permanent representatives of the Australian Governments*.