HISTORIC RAILWAY CARRIAGE
RELIC OF THE WAR ITS FINAL HOME
The most famous railway the world is now waiting for a spec home to be built for it, before it ** turns to its duties as a permanent memorial in a forest clearing. This coach is that in which Mar**®* Foch signed the Armistice brought the Great War to an en • stood in the clearing of the fore Compiegne, where the historic took place, for some time, un " . authorities realised that it was in ger of being injured by the wea and removed it to Paris. Now, however, work is being ® on a building which will sb e th* unique Avar memorial “Undines* elements. When this is in r ,_ to and the coach itself has been P a thorough state of repair, it turn to its forest home. onotb** The Compiegne district o t association with the bis Britain and France. It waS .P n * jo&o side the gates of the town t of Arc was taken prisoner. of what happened to her att ich vee the memory is not one of forest* can be proud, but the fact is hising as showing how the whe-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 12
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195HISTORIC RAILWAY CARRIAGE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 50, 21 May 1927, Page 12
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