IN MEMORIAM

Southland Times, Issue 20209, 21 June 1927, Page 7

IN MEMORIAM

HONORING EMPIRE DEAD “CROSS OF SACRIFICE” UNVEILED MEMORIAL TO NEW ZEALANDERS (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) London, June 19. A message from Ypres states that Mr Dyett (president of the Empire Service League) unveiled the Cross of Sacrifice Memorial at Tynecot, which was erected in memory of 35,000 Empire soldiers who were killed in the later actions in the Ypres salient, many having no known graves. The nucleus of the cemetery is a few’ battle graves round the highest of several concrete German blockhouses, the centre of the heaviest fighting, over which the war cross is erected. The wall surrounding the graves contains a stone inscribed: “Their name liveth for evermore”; also panels containing the names of the killed, supplementing those inscribed at Menin Gate. A small semi-circular apse was consecrated to the memory of the New Zealand dead. Those present included members of the Empire Service League, the burgomasters of Passchendaele and Zonnebeke, and many inhabitants. The Rev. F. Molyneux blessed the cross, and buglers sounded the “Last Post” and the “Reveille.”—A. and N.Z. FIVE VICTORIA CROSSES. London, June 19. At the Tynecot Cemetery, the known graves include those of five winners of the Victoria Cross, also 1,344 Australians, and 508 New Zealanders. The apse is inscribed with the names of 1,179 New Zealanders who fell in the action of Brookseinde, the first battle of Passchendaele. The unknown graves are inscribed: “Known only unto God.”—Sun Cable. FRENCH MEMORIAL. STATEMENT BY M. POINCARE. Paris, June 19. Important references to Franco-German relations were made by M. Poincare at the unveiling of a war memorial at Luneville. He said France was not seeking reasons to maintain perpetual hatred and resentment towards Germany but why should high authorities in German}’ carry on a campaign demanding revision of the Dawes Plan? If Germany stated definitely that no attempt would be made to regain Alsace and Lorraine either by violence or by treachery, if she reorganised the police, dissolved military societies and destroyed fortresses he would give the world guarantees of her pacific intentions and facilitate a rapprochement that France would not be the last to desire.—A. and N.Z.