WAR MEMORIES.
AUSTRALIANS AT VILLERS BRETONNEUX. GROUND THAT IS HALLOWED BY GALLANTRY. (Received Friday, 7 p.m.) PARIS, April 6. The Mayor of Villers Bretonneux, welcoming Australian representatives visiting the cemetery, said: “Your children lie buried in ground hallowed <by their gallantry. We revere their memory equally with that of our own ■dead. ’ ’ Mr. Ferguson, one of the visiting Australians, said he was amazed to see how rebuilding had changed the entire contour of the country from what it was when he fought within half a mile of it. The Australians are visiting the various cemeteries and memorials on the battlefields.
(Villers Bretonneux, about ten miles east of Amiens, was the scene of a brilliant onslaught by the Australians which did much to stem the last great German offensive on the Western Front in 1918—an attempt to pierce the Allied line and capture Amiens, the last effective railway junction then available to the Allied armies).
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Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1934, Page 5
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