GALLIPOLI GRAVES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 170, 20 July 1920, Page 5

GALLIPOLI GRAVES.

When Mr Massey attended the Imperial War Conference in 1917 lie tabled a motion that when the peace terms were being arranged an earnest endeavor would be made to place that part of Gallipoli where rested the remains of so many British"and Overseas Dominion soldiers under the control of an Imperial organisation, upon which Australia, New Zealand and India should be repropresented, for the purpose of ensuring that the bodies of the heroes who gave their lives for the Empire at the most critical tim© in all its history should be cared for in a manner worthy of the deeds they pea-formed and tho sacrifices they made.

This has been substantially provided for in the Turkish' Peace Treaty, section 11 of Article 218 reading: "The Turkish Government shall transfeV to the British, French, and Italian Governments respectively full and exclusive rights of ownership over the land within the boundaries of Turkey, as fixed by the present Treaty, in which are situated the^ graves of their soldiers and sailors ■who'Ml in action or died from wounds,' accident, or. disease, as avgll as over land required for laying out cemetaries or" erecting memorials to these soldiers and' sailor's, or providing means of access to such cemeteries or: memorials."