REBURIAL OF REMAINS
ENQUIRY INTO A FRENCH CONTRACT. [United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] LONDON, Dec. 15. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent at Paris says that the French Government recently contracted with a Paris firm for the exhumation from the battlefields and reinterment in Lorette Cemetery of the remains of 90,000 Allied soldiers, and fixed the payment at 9s a day. After certain accusations had been made, a Commission was appointed and examined the tombs in which the exhumed bodies were stated to have been reinterred, and it is understood that they found in some only old boots containing skeleton feet which were recognised as those of British soldiers. In others there were broken bones showing spade marks.
It is alleged that the remains were divided in order to add to the apparent number of exhumations and thereby increase the payment.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1929, Page 6
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140REBURIAL OF REMAINS Hokitika Guardian, 18 December 1929, Page 6
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