WAR MEMORIALS

Evening Post, Volume 50, Issue 50, 27 August 1926, Page 7

WAR MEMORIALS

ELABORATE EDIFICES

UNPOPULAR IN FRANCE

SOMETHING PRACTICAL PEE-

FEBEED.

(United Prcca Association.—Copyright.) (Australian-New Zealand Cable Assn.) LONDON, 25th August.

As tho result of the War Graves Conference in Paris, the Dominions, out of respect for French feelings, are likely considerably to modify future war memorials in France. An authoritative traveller, who has just returned from the war areas in France, says that he found widespread objection by residents to Australia's proposed elaborate national memorial at Villors-Bretonneux. He concluded that the project might advantageously be reviewed. In his opinion, unanimous local opinion would probably prefer that a portion of the proposed expenditure should be devoted to a charitable purpose in the district, such as the endowment of a hospital, instead of a costly edifice, which in French eyes would inevitably appear somewhat bombastic. England, as well as France, is at present tending in favour of memorials of a more practical character than elaborate pieces of sculpture.