WAR GRAVE SCANDAL

BODIES FROM BATTLEFIELDS

SHOCKING ALLEGATIONS

LONDON", 16th December.

The "Daily Mail's" correspondent at Paris says that the French Government recently contracted with a-Paris firm for exhumation from the battlefields and reinterment in Lorette Cemetery of the remains of ninety thousand Allied soldiers, and fixed the payment at nine shillings per body.

In consequence of certain accusations a commission was appointed and examined the tombs in which tho exhumed bodies were stated to have been reinterred, and it is understood that they found in some only old boots containing skeleton feet, which were recognised as those of British soldiers' remains. In others were broken bones showing spade marks. It is alleged that the remains were divided in order to add to the apparent number of exhumations, and thereby increase the payment.