FATE OF DOUAUMONT.
VILLAGE NOT REBUILT. PREMIER UNVEILS MEMORIAL. LONDON, May 26. In .view of the dangers arising from the rebuilding of sites where masses of shells and explosives might lie buried, the authorities prohibited the reconstruction of the village of Douaumont, says the Paris correspondent of the “Times.”
The Premier (M. Poincare) when unveiling a memorial to the destroyed village, said the dispossessed inhabitants had the right to demand that their fate should be remembered when the larger questions of reparation were discussed.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 200, 10 June 1929, Page 8
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