GERMAN SKELETONS
GRIM FIND IN OLD BATTLEFIELD.
20 MEN ENTOMBED!BY A SHELL.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright,
Paris, April 9.
A grim battlefield find was made in a wood near Chaulnes where a famekeeper’s dog suddenly disappeared down a hole. Investigations revealed that it led to an underground gallery roofed with sheet iron.
A skeleton wearing a German shrapnel helmet was found on a seat of earth, a rifle within reach.- Nineteen other skeletons of Germans were then found. Apparently they were imprisoned by a shell which closed the entrance of the sap during the bombardment in September, 1917, and they died of suffocation. <
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 April 1935, Page 5
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