WAR TRAGEDY OF VERDUN

Hawera Star, Volume L, 6 March 1931, Page 5

WAR TRAGEDY OF VERDUN

RECOVERY OF BODIES. PROPER SEARCH ADVOCATED. Pi«<- Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) PARIS, March 4. It was revealed in the Chamber of Deputies by the Mayor of Verdun that recent work thereabouts had resulted in the discovery of bodies at the rate of 11. per day. The Premier replied that it was proposed to ask Parliament for a substantial sum to enable a systematic search and reverent burial. He regretted that the question had only arisen thirteen years after the war.

SUM WANTED FOR BURIALS. Received 11.15 a.m., to-day. LONDON, March 5. The “Times” Paris correspondent states the Premier, M. Lovel has announced in the Chamber that the Government intended to ask for a credit of £400.000 for the purpose of burying the Verdun dead. Deputy Haye declared it was scandalous that work of re-afforestati on should have been begun in an area where thousands of dead still remained. The Pensions Minister, M. Ribes, replied it was impossible ix> search 1000 acres comprising the Verdun battlefield but the Government would do its utmost to see that, the recovered dead were suitably buried as early as possible.