ANZAC CEMETERIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18947, 22 August 1923, Page 7

ANZAC CEMETERIES.

DIGNIFIED MEMORIALS. SIR JAMES ALLEN'S VISIT. Pros* Association —By Talegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 20. (Received Aug. 21, at 7.50 p.m.) Sir James Allen has returned from Constantinople and Gallipoli. He states that the Gallipoli cemeteries are nearing completion, and are awaiting the tablets giving the regimental particulars for the headstones. Five hundred of these are on the way from England. The names of the missing and of those buried at sea. will be recorded together with those of the Australians at the memorials on Lone Pine Hill, Chunuk Bair, Cape Helles, Twelve Tree Copses, and Cemetery Hill, where the Krithia fighters fell. Sir James Allen says: “I was very pleased with the cemeteries, both as regards the sites and the progress made. Nearly all have a commanding outlook. They are designed by Sir John Barnett and should give satisfaction to the people of New Zealand. The foundations have been laid for the New Zealand memorial at Chunuk Bair, and the whole will ne completed within 10 w T eeks on a beautiful site overlooking the Aiigean and the Dardanelles. It will be a dignified monument worthy of the men who fell at Gallipoli. The general memorial at Capp Helles will bear the names of the missing other than the New' Zealanders. It would be impossible to select a finer site. The memorial stands on a promontory from which can be seen Imbros, the AEgean, and the Dardanelles. Mr Mulville, w r ho is a member of the firm of contractors, is a New Zealander.

Sir James Allen met many Australasians, including Colonel Hughes (Deputy Director of Works on Gallipoli) and Mr Jordan (Vice-consul at Constantinople), both of whom are Australians, said Captain Harper (of the cruiser Resolution), who is a New Zealander.—A. and N.Z. Cable.