WAR GRAVES.
EXHUMATION OF AMERICANS.
(Received 6, 11.35 a.m.) Paris, Feb. 4.
America is landing 17,000 tin-lined coffins at Brest to receive the bodies of soldiers for conveyance home. Special detachments of American gravediggers have been employed on exhumations. Their work is confined to back areas, where soldiers died in hospitals and graves can be identified. The bodies of those who fell on the battlefields will be left untouched.
The laying out of 1500 British cemeteries in France is now progtcasing rapidly. —(Times.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 47, 7 February 1920, Page 5
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