IN MEMORY OF HEROES
DEFENCE OF VERDUN GREAT OSSUARY INAUGURATED Bu Cable. —Picas Associolioi.— Copyriffe j Reed. 11.38 a.m. PARIS, Sunday. One hundred generals and two car I dinals participated n the inaugur-' j tion at Houaumont o£ a great ossuarj to commemorate the heroic defence v' Verdun. The bodies of fifty unknown soldier, j were deposited therein, after whir, | Marshal Petain lighted a perpetual flame in remembrance. Marshal Petain. in his address, re. i vealed the fact that the Verdun it l'erno was so frightful that each i written order was repeated ten times to ensure one in ten getting th-otie*. ( —A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 153, 19 September 1927, Page 12
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