GRAVES OF SOLDIERS.
WELL KEPT IN FRANCE. (Bv Teleeraph. —Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. General Sir. A. <H. Russell, who returned from England yesterday has spoken in terms of admiration of She way the graves are kept in France and t*e excellent organisation controlled by the Rev. Mr Mollineux for visiting them. _ The General was surprised to una how far advanced reconstruction was in the districts he saw. There was hardly a shell hole in view. Villages he left as heaps of rubbish were now re-built, and crops were growing everywhere. Probably not two per cent of the land remained unreclaimed.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1420, 25 October 1923, Page 5
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