FORTRESS IN GRAVEYARD.
THE HUNS' SACRILEGE. (Reuter's Telegram.) (Received July 20, 9 a.m.) LONDON, July 19. Mr. Warner Allen, the British correspondent with the French, on tho Somme, describes the sacrilege of the Germans. Their fortresses •at Curlu -were in graveyards, tlie enemy emptying the graves and vaults and using them as dugouts. They destroyed and flung out coffins and corpses, uprooting headstones and railings for barricades, and linking up the whole with subterranean passages, forming elaborate defence works full of concealed shelters and machine guns, where Germans driven from the village finally refuged, compelling the French to concentrate their artillery, laying the church in ruins before they conquered the enemy- * . -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14049, 20 July 1916, Page 3
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