24 SEPTEMBER 1927, Page 3

We also desire to associate ourselves with the more solemn

event at Verdun, the inauguration on Wednesday by the Prime Minister of a monument which is in some ways a counterpart to our Merlin Gateway. What Great Britain felt at Ypres she feels again for France when, with civil and splendid religious celebrations, she honours the multitude of unrecorded dead around Verdun.

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