WAR GRAVES IN BELGIUM
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(By Telegrapli-
AUCKLAND, Last Night. The graves of New Zealand and Ausferalian aoldiers who died in Belgium during the Great War continue to^e immaculately kept, according to Mr. N, R. Mighell, cliair-man of the Australian Repatriation, Conimission, who arrived by the Monterey from San Francisco on his way back to Melbourne, after visiting England for the Coronation cclebrations. He said that all the graves ho had seon looked fresh and new and that flowers and lawns wero growing everywhere about them. , '.As an instance of the manner in , Which the Belgians were apparently rdetermined not to forget thq assistance of the British Empire, he said, every .night at Menin Gate in Ypres a Belgian gilard turned out and stood at the snlute while the ''Last Post" sounded.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 19
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