World Girdled with Empire's Gallant Dead King George, during his tour, with the Queen, of the battlefields on the Western Front, was present at an important ceremony at Terlincthun Cemetery. Addressing The assembled company, His! Majesty said For the past few days I have been on a solemn pilgrimage in honour of a people who died for all free men, At the close of that pilgrimage, on which I followed ways already marked by many footsteps of love and pride and grief, I should like to send a message to all who have lost those dear to them in the great war, and in this the Queen joins me to-day amidst these surroundings so wonderfully typical of that single-hearted assembly of nations and of races which form ovr Empire. For here, in their: lest quarters, lie sons of every portion of that Empire, across, as it were, the threshold of the Mother Island, which they guarded that ircedom might be saved la the uttermost ends of the earth.
For this, a generation of our manhood offered itself without question, and almost without the need of a summons. Those proofs of virtue, which we honour here today, ave to: be found throughout the world and its waters—since we can truly say that the whole circuit of the earth is girdled with the graves of our dead. Beyond the stately cemeteries of France, across Italy, through Eastern Europe, in well-nigh unbroken chain, they stretch, passing over the holy Mount of Olives itself to the furthest shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans—from Zeebrugge to Coronel, from Dunkirk to the hidden wildernesses of East Africa, A Triep aNp GeNerovs FRIEND. but in this fair land of France, which sustained the utmost fury of the long strife, owr brothers are numbered, thousands, they lie in the keeping of a tried and generous friend, a resolute and chivalrous comrade-inarms, who, with ready and quick sympathy, has set aside for ever the soil in which they sleep, so that we ourselves and our descendants may for all time reverently vend and preserve their resting-Places. And here, at Terlincthun, the shadow of his monument falling almost across their graves, the! greatest of French soldiers—of all soldiers—stands guard over them. And this is just, for, side by. side with the descendants 6f his incomparable armies, they defended his Jand in defending their own.
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