GAMBLE IN WAR AREAS.
HILL 60 FOR SALE. (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT.) (AUSTBAUAN AND N.Z - 'CABLE.. ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, July 19. An uncanny form of land speculation was revealed in an advertisement offering to sell 15,000 square metres of Hill 60, which a British: Staff officer bought from the Belgians immediately after the war. The advertisement states that it is the only intact portion in the Ypres Sectoi, with pillboxes, and dugouts, and is ideal for the erection of regimental and division memorials. The owner estimates that the land is worth £IO,OOO
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19058, 21 July 1927, Page 6
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