WAR MEMORIALS
TOO ELABORATE AND COSTLY. LONDON, June 30. Mr M. L. Shepherd (official secretary in the office of the Australian High Commissioner) representing the War Graves Commission, attended a meeting of the AngloFrench War Graves Committee at i'axis at which the French Government mildly but pointedly suggested that Britain and the dominions were out-distancing France in the magnitude of their war memorials on the French battlefields to such an extent as completely to overshadow the French memorials. The Australian memorial at Maningate was instanced and also Canada’s proposed memorial at Vimy which will be 50 per cent, more costly and higher than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. Financially, France was unable to overspread her hundreds of battlefields with similar structures and must therefore suffer by comparison in French popular estimation with Britain and the dominions, who had collectively fewer but individually more colossal memorials. The British and dominion delegates undertook to convey France’s representations to their respective Governments.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/OW19260706.2.137
Bibliographic details
Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 30
Word Count
160WAR MEMORIALS Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 30
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Otago Witness. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.