HONOURING HER DEAD.
,«J,. FRANCE AND WAR LEADERS. REBURIAL IN DES INVALIDES. (Received April 7, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. PARIS, April 7. The arrangements have been completed for the reburial in the Hotel des Invalides, where the Emperor Napoleon lies, of the bodies of several French generals who fought in the World War. The ceremony will take place in the middle of 1927. The bodies will be exhumed by the various municipalities and conveyed to Paris, where they will be laid side by sitle in the chape], with flags above them. , The generals include Grosetti, Roques, Maudhuy, Humbert, Maistre, Manoui-y, Dubois. Nivelle. Mangin and Langle de Gary. The only one missing is General Gallieni, who, before his . death, had expressed a desire that his body should be left in the cemetery at St. Raphael.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 11
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135HONOURING HER DEAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19607, 8 April 1927, Page 11
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