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The Ypres Times.
was good to know that some there are who
remember.
The occasion was a memorial service, organised
by the Ypres League and conducted by the Rev.
J. Cethin Jones, for those fallen in the war. It
was the anniversary of the first battle of Ypres,
in which corner of a Belgian field lay 200,000 of
our brave English' dead.
The service was an impressive one. There were
present about 70 members of the Ypres League,
together with relatives and friends.
In a short address, Rev. J. Cethin Jones called
upon his hearers to enterwith the glorious memory
The Daily Telegraph.
Ypres Day was celebrated yesterday by an im
pressive ceremony at the Cenotaph and by the
sale in the streets of artificial cornflowers in aid
of the Ypres League.
Many beautiful wreaths were laid round the
base of the memorial in Whitehall Place, in memory
of that great legion of young heroes from all parts
of the Empire who, in the Ypres Salient, during
the long Homeric battles between 1914 and 1918,
barred the way of the invader to Calais and to
England. Shortly before one o'clock Princess
of those who had laid down their lives as their
inspirationupon the new war, the war for peace.
Let them be determined that the great lessons of
the war should not be effaced from their memory
and that there should be no further war. That
would be for the glory not only of our Empire, but
of the Kingdom of Christ. Shoulder to shoulder,
side by side, let them stand for peace as the brave
lads they were honouring that day had stood for it
with their lives. That was the finest way by which
they could remember the brave lads who had died
for their country.
Beatrice, patron of the Ypres League (with his
Majesty and the Prince of Wales), drove from
Kensington Palace to lay a superb wreath of
laurel and flowers on behalf of the League and its
thousands of members, great and humble, through
out the land. Her Royal Highness was received by
General Lord Home and by Major Henry E.
Murat (secretary of the League). Quite 2,000
spectators, very many of them women and children,
and all of them wearing some sign of mourning
and the cornflower, had already gathered at the
spotand a brief and beautiful ceremony followed.
the earl of ypres signing copies of the league song, a corner in flanders.'
