WATERLOO CENTENARY
An influential Belgian committoo (says the Brussels correspondent of .tire “Daily Telegraph”) is being formed to celebrate on Juno 18, 1915, the hundredth anniversary of file battle of Waterloo. The object of the committee is not so much to glorify the great victory won by Wellington and Blucher as to render adequate homage, regardless of nationality. to all litre heroes who took part in the momentous battle. With this aF,m in view, one of the early Steps token by the committee will bo tho collecting of all the bones which axe even yot found in large numbers around the battlefield. These will all be put in a vast tomb, and a monument will be erected in hlcrnour of the unidentified fallen soldiers. Allegorical statuary will be a feature of this monument. Another memorial will probably be erected to tba.se Belgians who, in tho words of Sir Walter Scott, “died bravely for a cause foreign to them.” The silo-of this memorial will probably bp Quatro-Bnrs.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 8
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166WATERLOO CENTENARY New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7869, 3 August 1911, Page 8
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