THE WAR GRAVES IN FRANCE.
(By H. J. Green wall.) ' ' • ' PARIS, November 1. Thousands' of Parisians, like fiheir compatriots all over the country, are to-day paying homage to the dead. ...... /Following the : example i selvr by; -M. Poincare, Frenchmen; and particularly women, are rtaking flowers to lay on the graves cf those- who have. -fallen:, on, the field of honor, both tho- British ». and Canadian colonies m Pains taking part. Tp-morrgjky. .AU Sovils' Day, : Sii; Barap■fykb Fuller, will, unfurl 1 the British .'flag over the graves of the British heroes buried at Versailles, where the Rev. "Vivian Evans, tho British chaplain, has been granted permission to fly the flag m perpetuity. ' • The- graves, at Versailles have been tended for two .years by a, little Frenchgirl, who kept them trim" and- planted flowers. She. was' out m all weathers, and haft' now fallen seriously 1 , il) through her devotion. , :
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 10
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148THE WAR GRAVES IN FRANCE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14185, 30 December 1916, Page 10
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