SOLDIERS' GRAVES.
VISIT TO FRANCE AND BELGIUM. By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. Beceived April 26, 5.5 p.m. c . Brussels, April 25. sir Thomas Mackenzie has concluded ft tour of the British military cemeteries of France and Belgium. He was struck with the care with which the craves were being tended. Flowers have been planted on the graves, which are kept to order by workmen under experienced gardeners. Eight hundred cemeteries ivere transferred to the control of the imperial War Graves Commission. He was satisfied that the work of removing bodies from the battlefields was con" ducted most reverently.—Reuter Service
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 April 1920, Page 5
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