FRENCH BATTLEFIELDS
VISITING AUSTRALIANS. Received April 6, 9.5 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 j their gallantry. We revere their memjory equally with our own dead." Mr. Ferguson, one of the visiting ) Australians, said he was amazed to see how the rebuilding had changed the entire contour of the country from what it was when he had fought within half a mile. The Australians visited various cemeteries and nyimorials on the battlefields.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 9
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