WAR GRAVES

Evening Star, Issue 19551, 9 May 1927, Page 4

WAR GRAVES

HOLY LAND CEMETERIES MOUNT OF OLIVES MEMORIAL UNVEILING CEREMONY. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, May 6. The Jerusalem correspondent of ‘ The Times ’ says that Sir James Parr and Major-general Sir Edward Chaytor detrained at Deirbelab and inspected the-war-cemeteries in South Palestine. . They motored to Gaza, Jaffa, and Tel Aviv, and inspected the graves. .

Tho party then rejoined Lord Allenby’s party, and witnessed the unveiling of the stone of remembrance in the war cemetery at Ramleh. Lord Allenby paid a tribute to the valor and disinterestedness of the Egyptian Expeditionary Forco, and recalled the noise of war which had resounded in Palestine throughout the ages. Pointing to a hill visible on the horizon, he said -it was popularly regarded by many millions as haunted, 'because it, was an “immemorial centre of fighting.” He prayed that their soldiers’ lives, which had been given to end the war, would not have been given in vain. May 7. The Bishop of Jerusalem dedicated the cemetery at Ramleh, where 1,885 British soldiers, including sixty Australians and eighty New Zealanders, are buried. Lord Allenby, Lord Plumer, Sir James Parr, and Generals Chaytorand Dodds, and many St. Barnabas pilgrims wore present.

WAR MEMORIAL CHAPEL DESCRIBED.

TRIBUTE TO THE MOUNTEDS,

LONDON, May 7,

Lord Allenby opened tjjn war memorial chapel at the Mount of Olives. It was designed by Sir John Burnet. Flanking the curved walls are the names of the nations engaged in the war, while the objects of the mission are inscribed on pylons bearing the Australian and the New Zealand coats of arms. Inside the chapol is thei mosaic gift from New Zealand, containing six figures, symbolical of victory, peace, patriotism, faith, humanity, and hope.

In unveiling the gift, Sir James Parr said it was the good fortune of tho New Zealanders to serve under both Lord Plumer and Lord Allenby, whose names were household words in tho dominion, which had sent 100,000 troops. Of these none were more efficient than the monnteds, who were fully entitled to their country’s magnificent memorial mosaic.—A. and N.Z. and ‘ Sun ’ Cable.

‘The Times,’ in a leading article on the unveiling of the memorial chapel, recalls that there is no more historic site than the Mount of Olives, and pays a tribute to New Zealand’s- gifts of honor and to the splendid cavalrymen commanded by General Chaytor. —‘The Times?

CHRISTIANITY RESTORED,

LONDON, May 7

At the memorial service Sir Janies Parr said; “This scene fires tho im-

agination and thrills the soul. Here, on the Mount of Olives, Britain and her children, who, under God’s providence, liberated the Holy Land from the Turk, have reared a beautiful temple dedicated to the men who fought a good fight and restored to Christianity its ancient cradle. New Zealand is 1 proud of her sons, who played not an inglorious part,” General Chaytor was also present. | Sir Janies Parr was the chief guest of the Imperial overseas dinner at Cairo on route. DETACHMENTS AT CANBERRA. ■ JERUSALEM, May 8. j (Received May 9, at 10.30 a.m.) General Dodds, speaking at Ramleh, recalled that tho Palestine campaign inj chicled the mightiest host of horsemen I ever raised. Detachments from the Australian units which were engaged in the campaign had assembled at Canberra for a review hy the Duke of York and would carry for the first time I standards emblazoned with the names of Gaza, Bersheba, Jerusalem, Jaffa, : and Damascus.