AS THE SUN GOES DOWN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 80, 13 October 1928, Page 15

AS THE SUN GOES DOWN

As time goes 031 we want to forget the hate and honor of the Great War, but there is one thing we can never forget, and that is the sacrifice of the Jives laid down. So it is good to think that night after night, as the summer goes by, a reminder will sound from Menin Gate. The chief of the police of Yprcs lias started a ceremony in which at sundown two rjngj^rs sound the Belgian rpfcreat. The traffic ia held up and people csn stand for a moment, and iTOte.h., and think, and ' remember what tJbe. dyiug • day meant to so many ia the years which already seem long ago. The Belgian buglers are being taught the Last Pout, tie <S»U Which has rung out over the. open graves of .Englishmen •11 over the world, in lonely hill stations, on remote islands, -.wherever-the' British flag has flown. Since the war the Last Post has always had 8 special meaning, and now, on summer evenings for evormoye, the. Last Post will ring out at the Mcnin Gate. .-,....