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FRENCH WAR CEMETERY. BRITISH GENERAL’S APPROPRIATE SPEECH. - Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 22. General Sir Neville Macready and General La Capelle opened a great war cemetery at St. Omer, where 2800 British dominions and Indian soldiers were buried alongside thousands of Frenchmen. The most impressive sight during the ceremony was a line of French cavlary in their blue uniforms drawn up against the background of white stone memorials on either side of the pathway joining the great Cross of Sacrifice and the Scoue of Remembrance. General Macready, speaking jp French from the steps of the Stone of Remembrance, gave a touching address, recalling the brotherhood of Britain and France, which, he said, was bom of danger, cemented by blood, and kept alive by the memory of the gallant dead.— A. and N.Z. Cable,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19000, 24 October 1923, Page 7
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