Rouen’s Reward For War’s Decimation
(Rec. 11.5) PARIS, July 18. The President of France, M. Auriol has presented the town of Rouen with the Legion of Honour and a Croix De Guerre with palm. During the war. Rouen underwent twentyeight bombardments. Twentv-five thousand of its inh''’'” ~nts we:' killed, and seventeen thousand of its houses were destroyed.
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Grey River Argus, 19 July 1949, Page 4
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