FOR WORLD PEACE.
AVAR VETERANS’ ACT. PARIS,. July 13. Tens of thousands of war veterans, including representatives of France, Britain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russia, and the Lnited States, gathered at twilight in the cemetery at Verdun on Sunday night, stood before the tomb of seveii unknown soldiers, on which flared a “torch of peace,” and solemnly recited the oath of peace. The men moved among the graves on which each at a given signal laid a , flower, repeating three times “For the peace of the world.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 7
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86FOR WORLD PEACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 200, 14 July 1936, Page 7
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