BONES OF GIANTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 July 1918, Page 3

BONES OF GIANTS.

(From the Official Correspondent with the Australian Imperial Force). LONDON, June 18. The,shelling of Amiens proceeds daily in tho usual Roche,-like manner, while Corbie and its splendid old church resemble Arras for the completeness of the destruction of nil that is beautiful in the town. No troops of ours are endangered. The Germans know this quite well, but it amuses them. The vicinity of these recent Somme battles is most ancient country. Corbie church itself dates back to the early Christian centuries. Not far off the Australians, when entrenching, found old stone coffins, buried deep, containing the bones of men probably six feet six inches high, with very long tliigli-houes and small receding _ foreheads. Some coffins contained hits of weapons, and one the fragment of a sword-blade and a small spearhead, both apparently beaten from iron. Elsewhere in the same valley, the trench diggings turned up a number of pennies inscribed, “Nero, Caesar. ’ The locality of the coffins apoears to have been a battleground after the coffins were buried, for above and around them are great quantities of hones, embedded in chalky soil. There are. no indications of any buildings in the vicinity.