Mohave County miner., 1916-11-25
GREAT PAINS TAKEN IN CARE OF REMAINS
 OF DEAD OF ALLIES

. LONOON, NOV. 1U.-ln keeping
 with all other phases of the war
 order has come at last in the care ot
 the dead. Where all was topsy-turvy
 two years ago in the first pell-meI
 rush to battle, and where there was
 little time to bury men even where
 they fell, the British now have evolved
 an organization and a system of deal
 ing with this evergrowing problem
 which at least relieve the bereaved at
 home of the added torment and an-
 xety of the unknown grave. i At the beginning of the war men
 were buried near the trenches only
 to have their graves blown away by
 exploding shells the very next day.
 But many remained, and some have been identified as the Allies have fought their way slowly back over part of the ground once occupied by the Germans.
 Where there was hard fighting in France and Belgium, the eye of the traveller along the roads today is struck by many low crosses sticking out of the ground in the fields, in cottage gardens, in corners of farm yards and orchards, even on the road side strips of grass. Where the ground has changed hands a good deal in the course of the war one can see, within a few hundred yards of each other, the gabled and eaved cross of the Germans, the "Hier ruht in Gott" and name painted white on a dark background; the beaded wire wreath of the French with its Requiescat or Mort pour la France, and the plain lined cross of the English, white or light brown, or just unpainted wood, ''In loving memory, of one or more officers and men.
 The very position of some of these isolated memorials is eloquent. Near Fricourt, on what used to be "No Mans Land" until the English won it the past summer, a number of En- fish crosses stand to the memory of unknown French soldiers. This was part of the line turned over to the English by the French. "We leave you our trenches and our dead" they said. When the English offensive be- gan last July and the first line Ger man trenches were carried by storm, it was one of the first cares of the British Tommies to bury the bodies of their French comrades, some having lain in the fre-swept zone since late in the winter.
 To some officers the idea of being | buried where they fell, and have there erected even the modest little mem orial of a roughly hewn cross, is an honor greater than the shelter of Abbey. A few such graves, and some part of the trenches near them, probably will be preserved by village communes or private own CTS of land.
 But as the war has fingered, and there still is much stubborn fighting say for years-the care of the dead las become a most im- portant branch of war work-impor- .ant alike in sentiment and sanitation. The British have organized a Com mission of Graves Registration and Inquiries and under it's direction units and sections have been sent to the front, and back of the front. Much of the work is done by non-combatants, but many of their tasks must be carried out under fire and some have been killed and others wounded.
 When an officer or man is killed at he front, or dies of wounds, his burial is now at once reported to the reg units. If killed in action he nay still be buried in the old way near the trench. If so, the .haplain or officer who buries him, re- ports the position of the grave, which IS soon as possible is marked with a lurable cross and an Identification ,late stamped in aluminium.
 But this mode is becoming much less common. The army has been quick to 'ealize the desirability of burying its lead in the nearest of the 300 or more cemeteries behind the lines. T The bodies are carried back by road IT light railway to one of the little wooden, iron or canvas mortuaries which the registration units have set ID in the cemeteries. There is Iothing perfuntcory about the fun | rals. Everything is done as tenderly h nd reverently as if the dead were in n English churchyard. n
 Some of the cemeteries are great c xtensions of little village grave fl ards. Some were begun by special O orps or divisions, which wished to lo