TREMENDOUS TASK
' REMOVING AMERICAN DEAD i
; , HROM FRANCE. . Published in “ito* Time*.". PARIS, February 4-, America is landing 17,(XX) tin-lined coffins at Brest, to receive the bodies, of soldiers for conveyance home. ~. Special • detachments of American ■ gravediggers arc. to be employed. The exhumations are confined, ■’to ifii© back areas, where, soldiers; died in hospitals. The graves of identifiable bodies fallen on the battlefields will bo left untouched. ■ ■; '■ ■■■■.-. ■ , : ■‘- rr . ' . Tho laying out! of 1600 British cemeteries in France is now progressing rapidly.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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81TREMENDOUS TASK New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10507, 7 February 1920, Page 7
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