FLOWERS FORBIDDEN
GERMAN ORDER UN PARIS. On November 11 the German authorities in Paris forbade the placing of flowers on any monument to the dead of the last war. A flower seller near the Arc de Triomphe, the triumphal arch beneath which the French Unknown Soldier lies, had put on her barrow, “No flowers today for the Arc de Triomphe.” The German order specified “November 11.” The head of a Paris higher school covered the school's monument to its war dead with flowers the day before. He had not disobeyed the order and the Germans did not think it wise to take away the flowers. At Versailles, where last year a wreath with a tricolour ribbon was placed on the memorial to British wav dead of the last war, the cemetery was guarded and no flowers could be laid on the British graves.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4
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