HILL SIXTY.
DESECRATION UNLIKELY. LONDON, Sept. 19. Major-General Sir Favian Ware; who has returned from a visit to Bel-gium,-says that there is no danger pf Hill 60 being desecrated by the excavations, which are confined to the adjacent property of a Belgian farmer. A cablo messago published on September 13 stated: On behalf of a group anxious to boom the tourist traffic, workmen have begun to open up tho famous Hill 60, the scene of some of the fiercest fighting in war-time, exposing subterranean galleries which aro still full of equipment. The project is resented by relatives of British soldiers, who wore blown up and buried on tho hill.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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109HILL SIXTY. Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 253, 20 September 1930, Page 9
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