VIMY RIDGE MEMORIAL
FAMOUS AVAR TUNNEL RE OPENED. MILKS OF UNDERGROUND TRACKS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Oct. 18, 7.5 p.m, London, Oet. 17. Canadian engineers, preparing the Vimy Ridge Memorial site, discovered the famous Grange Tunnel with miles of underground passages pushed out within a few yards of the German lines on Vimy Ridge. The entrance wae choked up with tangled wire exactly in the condition it was in in 1317. This is the only original intact portion on the entire Western Front battlefield. Duckboards lie in the trenches, ami officers’ beds are rotting or have collapsed in the chalk dug-outs. A hundred names and many messages written on the chalk in indelible pencils are as fresh as a decade ago. Mills bombs lie on ledges with eans of bully beef, tin liats and rusting rifles. The chalk is still blackened from the smoke of candles set in niches to light the passages. The authorities are preserving intact what is destined to be one of the most touching memorials and most remarkable reliee of the war.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1927, Page 7
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