WAR MEMORIALS
BRITAIN AND DOMINIONS
OVERSHADOWING FRANCE
ON HER OWN BATTLEFIELDS.
(United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, 30th June. Mr. M. L. Shepherd, representing the War Graves Commission, attended the Anglo-French War Graves Committee at Paris, at which the French Government mildly but pointedly suggested that Britain and the Dominions were outdistancing them in> the magnitude of the war memorials on French battlefields, to such an extent as completely to overshadow the French memorials. They instanced the Australian memorial at Maningato, also Canada's proposed memorial at Vimy, which was 50 per cent, more coatly and higher than the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. France financially was'unable to overspread her hundreds of battlefields with similar structures, and must therefore suffer by comparison iv French popular estimation with Britain and the Dominions, who had collectively fewer but individually moro colossal memorials. The British and Dominion delegates undertook to convey France's representations to their respective Governments.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7
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154WAR MEMORIALS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 2, 2 July 1926, Page 7
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