An incident which took place during the visit of German cyclists to France some months ago was referred to by Mr J. W. Heenan during an address to the Wellington centre of the N.Z. A.A.A. on the "subject of the Olympic Games (says the Post). For successes which the German cyclists had achieved they were crowned with wreaths, and the German visitors subsequently visited the graves of fallen soldiers, and on those graves they placed the wreaths.bearing the inscription, "From Gprman sportsmen to French sportsmen who fell in (he war." "It is claimed," said Mr Heenan. "that that action did more to make possible future friendly relationship and to make ppace between the German and French people than almost anything that has been (lone in any other sphere."
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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 16096, 20 September 1924, Page 11 (Supplement)
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