"THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
CEMETERY CONSECRATED
PETAIN AND PERSHING
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) LONDON, 21st September. At Verdun, after cloven and a half years, the cemetery in which are buried 250,000 who died to uphold the famous challenge, "They shall not pass" was consecrated in tho presence of Marshals Potain and Foch and General Persbing, and a throng in which the glittering vestments of tho Church contrasted with tho military uniforms of Trench veterans, . and 400 Ameri can. legionaries. M. Poincare recalled that in September, 1916, in ono of tho underground chambers of tho citadol, ho and others tried to estimate the results of- tho defence of Verdun, which they found gave an advantago on the allied and other fronts beyond all calculations. The first night the ossuary was opened Marshal Petain took his place throughout the night among tho guard mounted over the bones of tho unknown dead.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1927, Page 7
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