THE FUTURE OF YPKES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14053, 25 July 1916, Page 3

THE FUTURE OF YPKES.

In an article on a visit to Ypres Mr Percy Dearmer says : — "lt will be rebuilt some day. The ancient houses are gone for the most part, never to return ; but there is enough — at present — left of the Cloth Hall, and even of the cathedral, to make its restoration no difficult matter. Restoration is an ugly word, but the corner of the great cathedral 'tower cannot remain for ever as it is : either it will have to be pulled ■ down, or else it must be rebuilt by the ' reproduction of its missing walls. Ami one hopes for a now era of architecture and of town-planning*, m the building up of Belgium and Poland and Servia. But. I think that when the war is over Ypres will at first be kept a guarded sanctuary within its moated battlements for all the world to see. And all America will go to visit it, and all the neutral peoples; and ihey will realise what we fought for and why the fate of Christendom depended upon our conquering. France and Britain, too, will troop to see it — and Belgium : such [ troops ot pilgrims as have never been seen b'efore — multitudes among them wearing black."