On Tuesday Mr. Rudyard Kipling, Sir Fabian Ware, and Mr.
Churchill addressed a meeting of the Parliamentary Army Committee at the House of Commons on the work of the War Graves Commission. Mr. Kipling explained that the decision Of the Commission that there should be "absolute equality of treatment" for the graves was unanimous. Another leading aim of the Commission was that the graves should enduro for ever. The durability of every detail had been studied. Little space could be given to the headstones, for the dead often lay shoulder to shoulder, and sometimes there were two-or three in a grave. Elaborate tombstones such as individual affection might desire to raise would upset the whole scheme. He had seen the finished cemetery at Le Treport and was moved to the heart by its dignity and simplicity.
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