BODIES OF FRENCH SOLDIERS
ELEVEN’ PEE DAY DISCOVERED. SYSTEMATIC SEARCH PROPOSED, It was revealed in the French Chamber of Deputies by the Mayor of Verdun that recent work thereabouts had resulted in the discovery of bodies at the rate of 11 per day, :Tho Premier replied that it was proposed to ask Parliament for a substantial sum to enable a systematic search of the battlefields and reverent burial. He regretted that the question had only arisen 15 years after the war.
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Patea Mail, Volume LII, 9 March 1931, Page 4
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81BODIES OF FRENCH SOLDIERS Patea Mail, Volume LII, 9 March 1931, Page 4
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