EQUALITY IN DEATH.
BRITISH WAR GRAVES. Press Association. LONDON, April 27. Mr. Rudyard Kipling, in a speech delivered in London with reference to the work of the Imperial War Graves Commission, emphasised that the basic principle on which the Commission was working was absolute equality and permanence. He stated that no. point was more insisted upon by the Imperial representatives, both from the point of view of sentiment and justice. He pointed out the impossibility of acceding to requests for private expenditures The Commission aimed at making graves uniform and identical for every man, whether fisldmarshal or camp follower.
Mr. Winston Churchill, in a speech, similarly emphasised that the Dominions were contributing their quota of expenditure on the basis that the graves would be equal and uniform. He mentioned that half a million headstones would be required for the graves in France and Belgium alone.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17458, 30 April 1920, Page 5
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