FIRST GERMAN BAND.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 August 1919, Page 8

FIRST GERMAN BAND.

Investigations made as to the origin of skeletons recently discovered on the site of Chertsey Abbey Show conclusively that they are the remains of vic~ tims of a cholera epidemic. In 1848 them was at big outbreak of cholera. in the town, and tents were pitched on the land nezuj. where the bones we're (lis-envr-rcri. Hundreds ‘of people died. Men were set, to work to dig trenches in which to bury the dead, and these have new been eaffhed. Old inhabitants say that among the victims of the cholera outbreak were twelve out Of thirteen members of the first German band to enter England. They put up at a local inn and contracted the disease.