VERDUN BATTLEFIELD
INSUPERABLE OBSTACLES TO RECONSTRUCTION LAND SACRED TO THE DEAD Bt Teleeraph-Pren i««oclatlon-Oopyrighl London, November 19. ; The "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent states that France, is with insuperable obstacles to roconstruc-. lion in the Verdun fflslrict. One stretch, of the battle ground, holed with craters'and »trown with bodies and shells, where once _stood twenty-two villages, will not' no rcouiTi, because it would take years' to eloar the land. There are 800,000 dead—half Frenchmen—in this aren. : Ninety thousand bodies have been recovered in the last two years, and onoiourth Ttave been Tuontifiou. Every mila of ground contains thousands of bodies, and the land is regarded as sacred and. will be left untouched. In tun years it may be converted into pasture land.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 49, 22 November 1920, Page 4
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124VERDUN BATTLEFIELD Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 49, 22 November 1920, Page 4
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