The Holbrook news., 1921-04-29
London to Restore Verdun, but Cemeteries Prevent Work on
 Outlying Villages.
NEWCASTLE ASSISTS ARRAs
Manchester Raising $25o,ooo to Lift Mezieres Out of It's Heap of Dust and Ashes-Raise Money for
 the Rheims Cathedral.

New York.-Despite the burden of their war debts and the heavy taxes in the billions of pounds sterling they poured into Europe to save civiliza- ton, the people of Great Britain still are finding means to help the stricken populace il. the devastated regions of France.
 Under the stimulus of campaign directed by the central committee of the British League of Help, they are donating millions of dollars to repair, rebuild or restore public utilities, houses, villages and towns in the war swept zones of France. More than 50 ruined towns and villages have been adopted by English cities and towns.
 Verdun, that became immortal as one of the bloodiest battlefields of the entire war, has been adopted by the city and county of London. So great was the havoc wrought there by the enemy guns, so great the loss of life, and so numerous and thickly popu- lated the cemeteries of the soldier dead, that many of the outlying vil- lages may never be reclaimed. But Verdun proper, the city that "They Shall Not Pass" is to be restored in it's entirety.
 eoreughs Take Individual Action.
 Aside from this several London bor- oughs are taking individual action. Ac- cording to reports received by the for eign information department of the Bankers Trust company, Kensington has adopted Souches, Wadsworth has undertaken to look after the needs of Villers-PlOuich, and other boroughs are forming committees to raise funds to take care of other villages.
 Manchester is raising f50,000 to once was Mezieres; and of this amount 11,O00 already has been sub scribed. Newcastle has undertaken to provide f20,OO0 for Arras, and has paid its second installment of the gift. On February 5, when the mayor Of Arras visited Newcastle a check for 250,000 francs was handed to him.
 And Oxford, Sheffield, Exeter, Eyes ham, Eastbourne, Cirenchester and Birmingham have given and are giving to their capacity.
 Oxford proposes to restore the wa ter supply and to rebuild the school at Fayet. For this object, nearly f7O0 already has been collected.
 Sheffield has adopted three towns and villages-Bapaume, Puisieux and Serre, all made famous in the battle of the Somme and in the great Ger man drive in 1918. The fund in the hands of the lord mayor of Sheffield now stands at F5,0OO. Of this first installment of J0OOO francs has been sent to BspauRe toward the establish ment of day nursery; and, at the special request of it's mayor, a mo- tor tractor has been forwarded to Puisieux.
 Evershzm Orders Cider Fruit Trees.
 Exeter is undertaking tc restore the water supply at Montdidiec, where the American troops first went into the battle line, and has forwarded f2,OeO to the mayor of that city. Evesham is raising f1,OO0 for H@buteUne, and has ordered 300 cider fruit trees from Holland. Eastbourne has sent to Bray sur -SOmme gift of 5J0SJ0 francs, Ebe- sides supplying that ruined village with goods and foodstUffs to the value -of E50O. 'Cirencester has equippediand is supporting a food kitchen for the