PEOPLE DETERMINED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 304, 26 December 1939, Page 9

PEOPLE DETERMINED.

SEE STRUGGLE THROUGH.

GENERAL FREYBERG'S PLANS,

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Monday. "After 18 years it is a very wonderful thing to be back," said MajorGeneral B. C. Freyberg, V.C., general official commanding the New Zealand Special Force, in an interview after his arrival from Australia to-day. He was very liappy to have been appointed to command the New Zealand troops, he said, and to be associated with people he knew. General Freyberg 6aid he could not disclose what his movements would be, but a very full itinerary had been planned. His stay in New Zealand would be short, and every moment, of his time would be occupied. He would be paying visits to camps and would see all the troops. After hie arrival to-day General Freyberg went to church, and in the afternoon conferred with his staff. They had got straight down to work, he said, and had been met everywhere with great kindness. He was greatly indebted to the Chief of the General St* l ®! Major-General <7. E. Duigan, for the help he had given him. Speaking of the attitude of the people in Britain to the war, General Freyberg said everywhere there was the greatest determination to see the stru£r<de through. ba