News of the Week M EMORIALS set up in French cathedralsto
the British soldiers killed in the War have been followed by others in Belgium. One is in Malines Cathedral ; another was unveiled by Lord Haig and dedicated in the Church of St. Michel and Ste. Gudule in Brussels on Friday last with great dignity. But no memorial abroad will stir British hearts so deeply as the great Menin Gateway at Ypres, which is raised in honour of 250,000 British lives lost in the Salient of dreadful and glorious memory, and in particular of 58,000 who have no known graves. Sir Reginald Blomfield's great gateway forms a Hall of Remembrance and is now by no pretence a fortification or barrier. Vauban and his works have perished for all to-day. Never was a truer or more fitting reminder of the words, &paper yap rats Kai a relxv, and the men who were the walls of Ypres and barred the way to the Channel ports for four years were of our flesh and blood. YpreS is not far from England as distances count to-day. We believe that it will be a place of pilgrimage for many from these islands for years to come. It should be so..
