LEIPZIG CENTENARY.
MEMORIAL OF GERMANY'S FREEDOM. By Telegraph—Press AESociation-Copyrielit Berlin, October 19. . Tho celebrations in honour of the first ccntenhry of the Battle of Leipzig, which gave Germany her freedom, culminated in the inauguration of the gigantic granito memorial, which is 300 ft. high, and cost £300,000. There wero present at the ceremony the Kaiser, tho Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (Heir to tho AustroHungariari. Throne), tho King of Saxony, and representatives of Gorman, Austrian, and .Russian noblo families whoso ancestors fought in tho battle.^ Runnors delivered congratulatory dispatches from various places throughout tho German Empire, and from America and Brazil, amid chcors.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7
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103LEIPZIG CENTENARY. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1886, 21 October 1913, Page 7
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