YPRES RUINS TO REMAIN
A PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE. Replying to a <|uestion in tho Belgian Chamber, the Minister of the Interior declared Hint, in concert with the British authorities, it had bftfn judged desirable to keep tho Cloth Cathedral, ami adjacent houses at Yprca in their present state, and that steps had been taken to prcservo them from vandalism. The Minister added that llie.se ruins would constitute a place of pilgrimage, whither the Allies could come to evoke the memory of their countrymen who had fallen whilo striving to keep inrioluto a shred of Belgian, soil.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 10
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96YPRES RUINS TO REMAIN Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 59, 3 December 1919, Page 10
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