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As he uttered these words Sir Fabian Wäre, vice-chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, although in his office in London, appeared once again with his mind's eye to be, viewing the hean-

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At the cemetery at Kut," he con tinged, "there was one of the most impressive things I have over seen. As in France and Flanders, there were the Cross of Sacrifice, the The King has further decided | Stone of Remembrance, and the that when this work has been com- headstones. The latter were beneath pleted all the Mantegnan at the the palms. I have been at inany Palace shall be removed to one of stately ceremonies when homage was the corridors upstairs, where they paid to our dead, but I have never will be seen to much better advan.been more moved than by the tri- tage than in their present position,bute paid by the Arabs of the town. His Majesty's action will be ap. They gathered in rows, and remain. ed in an attitude of respect all the plauded by all well-informed art ex- perts. He was one of the first to

time we were among the graves. have recourse to the X-ray examina- tion of old masters, at a time when that system was an innovation not by any means universally accepted, In October, 1930, as exclusively an- | nounced by The Daily Telegraph, he had his famous pictura by Duccio at Buckingham Palace photogrn, phed by the X-raya and thoroughly cleaned in accordance with the data thus provided.

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"I do not think I was ever quite so proud of the work we have done. I felt that in the care of our dead we were representing. permanently to these people something of what is best in British ideals.

Tragic March Recalled.

"AL the beautiful cemetery in Baghdad there in the coe exception to the equality which reigns in every other British war cemetery. There is a contral`monument-a

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"When King Feisal received me special treatment to conserve the

he said with feeling that he owed ancient print, Mr. North has the present prosperity of his king- shown me a number of most inter- dom to the dead men in our ceme.. esting microscopical photographs of erics and he has himself arranged for water to be supplied to the the fatal growth.

Baghdad Cemetery that flowera, may

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The pictures, which are of huge be grown there." dimensions, are painted in distem Sir Fabian mentioned that there pur upon linen. Mantegna beganare 2,389 graves at Basra, 4,537 at work in 1483 and finished it Amara, 417 at- Kut, and 5,749 at about 1491. The pictures were Baghdad.. Capt. Peck spent four bought by Charles I. with the rest years in locating graves on the bat- of the Duke of Mantua's collection tlefields. The 41,000 dend who have »RINTING-Menu Cards, Dance in 1928. After the death of the no known graves are commemorated Programmes, Lavitation Cardo, Bridge SoaresWrite Box 657, c/a King they were rescued by Crom-on a monument at Basra, Hong Kong Daily Press.

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When in India Sir Fabian Ware went to the North-West Frontier,

where he fucnd the war graves care- fully tended. On bid way home from Irak he visited Damascus,, where the cemetery is a very beau tiful one. Everything has been done to make the cemetery on the Mount of Olives worthy of its site. At. Beersheba difficulties crented- Jiy' drought and focasts have had to be faced,