“THEY SHALL NOT PASS!”

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2242, 25 June 1929, Page 5

“THEY SHALL NOT PASS!”

Oil EAT MEMORIAL TO VERDEX DEFENDERS CITY DESTROYED TEN TIMES .MAKING AVAR UNPROFITABLE (AusL and N.Z. Cable) Paris, June 22. On (lip, 12lli anniversary of (lie breaking of the Oefman advance, the President, M. Domnergue, unveiled a great memorial to Ibe defenders of Verdun, which also celebrated 1 be. completion of the town’s reconstruction. A flallie soldier, with his hands on the sword hilt, stands on top of a triangular column to which lead 78 steps. A golden box in the crypt: contains the names of all the defenders. Marble tablets bear Oeneral Petnin’s order and M. Poincare’s words: “These are the walk against which the supreme hope of derman Imperialism were broken. Here France replied with the firm resolve ‘Ndtip shall pass.’ ” The Town Hall and houses were decorated with the colours of the -10 defending regiment s. M. Poincare, after a banquet, said: "France earnestly desires peace and would ensure it so long as the treaties were observed and reparations ( paid.” ( President Doumergiio recalled that | Verdun had been destroyed ten times. ( Euroye must be assured of peace to prevent an eleventh destrnetion, for T which war must lie made, if not im- , possible, then disastrous for the bel- y ligerents. ,