16 FAMOUS GENERALS IN ONE TOMB.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3380, 27 June 1927, Page 2

16 FAMOUS GENERALS IN ONE TOMB.

France’s national fete day, July 14, will witness an extraordinary ceremony when 16 of her “most glorious dead” will he laid to rest beneath a magnificent cenotaph in the. church of St. Louis, which stands beside Napoleon I.’s tomb in Les Invalided.

The riovernment has decided that the greatest of the military leaders of the country during the war shall have the right to a common resting-place there, and their bodies will he exhumed from the various places where they have been buried and solemnly laid together in (he crypt beneath the new cenotaph.

The 16 are: Marshal Maunoury and Generals G rossetli. Roques, De Maud’hnv. IT'unbest. Mjiistrc, Ilnat, Dubois. Xivelle, Do AH try, Laurozac, Putz, Mangin. De, Boissouciy, Gerard and Lang-le-('arv.

Marshall Gallicni. who will be chiefly remembered for having mobilised the taxicabs of Paris to send much-needed reinforcements to the battlefield of (lie Oureq. is not in the list. It was bis special request that be should rest iu the cemetery of St. Raphael, Ids home town.

There is gold in sea water, but it will never make anyone rich. The average concentration of the precious metal in 6000 .samples analysed was only about one one-hundredth of a milligram. or three one-millionths of an ounce, to the ton.

It lias been estimated that a single pair of stockings contains the silk from JJJ silkworms.