GREAT BATTLEFIELDS.
PRESERVED AS MONUMENTS. FRANCE TO KEEP HER SCARS. (Received 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, June 9. The French Battlefields Commission has selected 140 sites which will be preserved in their present state as monuments of the great war. They include famous battlefields, deep dugouts, pillboxes, several of the forts of Verdun, rock shelters cut out in the Vosges, the. Butte de Warlencourt, the ruins of Bapaume, parts of Peronne, the chateau of Thiepval, ruined tanks in the churchyard at Pozieres, the Givenehy battlefield, and the Tower Bridge at Loos. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 137, 10 June 1919, Page 5
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