"SACRED LAND."
IN VERDUN DISTRICT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn— Copyright. London, Nov. 10. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that France is meeting insuperable obstacles in connection with reconstruction work in the Verdun district. One stretch of battle ground is so holed with craters and filled with bodies and shells that 22 villages, which once stood thereon, will not be rebuilt, because it would take years to clear the land. Eight hundred thousand bodies, half Frenchmen, fill this area. Ninety thousand bodies have been recovered in the last two years, one fourth of which have been identified. Every mile of ground contains thousands of bodies. The land is regarded as sacred and will be left untouched, but 10 years hence it may be converted into pasture lands.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1920, Page 5
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