GRUESOME SCANDAL
REINTERMENT OF ALLIED SOLDIERS GOVERNMENT CHEATED PARIS, Sunday. The Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says the French Government recently contracted, with a Paris firm for the exhumation from the battlefields, and the reinterment in the Lorette Cemetery, of the remains o£ 90,000 Allied soldiers. It fixes the payment at 9s a body. After certain accusations a commission was appointed, and examined the tombs in which the exhumed bodies were stated to have been reinterred. It is understood that they found in some only old boots containing the skeletons of feet, which were recognised as those of British soldiers. The remains in others 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 so increase the payment received.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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135GRUESOME SCANDAL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 848, 17 December 1929, Page 9
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