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has made special arrangements for the construction of Cornflower Wreaths for those
desirous of placing them in the Salient or elsewhere. Full details as regards price, etc.,
can be obtained from the Secretary, they are especially anxious to help those who live
abroad.
One curious incident, however, in the story of the erection of cemeteries is worthy
of mention, viz., that contracts were received from Germany for the erection of Stones
in our cemeteries, a fact which shows a curious type of mentality across the North Sea.
They were not accepted. I am further informed that when one is ordering maps of the
Salient it is advisable to make quite certain that none of the work is executed in
Germany.
GERMAN CEMETERIES.
Thanks to the kindness of Viscount Stopford and Major H. P. Chettle and staff of
the Imperial War Graves Commission, I am enabled to give some information about
the German cemeteries in the Salient. To define the Salient, Major Chettle has taken
a line drawn north and south through Courtrai and east and west through Roulers and
Roubaix. I do not think it is a too generous interpretation. We have not shown the
position of the German burial grounds in the Cemetery map as the information was only
