PEACE AFTER STORM

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 48, 25 August 1921, Page 8

PEACE AFTER STORM

MR. HUGHES IN FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN MEMORIES.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.) (Special to Press Association.) (Received August 25, 1 p.m.)

LONDON, 2ttli August. Mr. Hughes made a tour of the battlefields' in. the Amiens region, where the conditions to-day are in marked contrast, to those of his last visit, during- the war.' ,

• Ho was accompanied by officers who had taken part in the campaign a-nd described the events on the ground; and Mr. Hughes visited the cemeteries, < which told plainly of the cost of the victory.

At Villers-Bretonheux, Mr. Hughes visited the site of the proposed memorial to the Australian defence of Amiens. The site, on- a hill overlooking the battlefield, has been criticised because it is out of the way and not , visible from the main road. Mr. Hughes deferred his decision as to the retention of the site.

At Bonnay, Mr. Hughes unveiled a Cross of Sacrifice, and. made an impressive speech, in reference to th© iwirfc .played in the war by, the Australian forces.

There are to be five divisional memorials—at Pozieres, •■ Mont St. Quentin, Bellinglise, Polygon Wood, and Sailly-le-.sec. Only that at Sailly is completed. Here Mr. Hughes stopped to lay a ■wreath on the memorial, and was welcomed by the Maire • and council.