BRITISH FORCE IN FRANCE

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 1, 26 September 1939, Page 7

BRITISH FORCE IN FRANCE

Moving Up To Positions (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 25, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, September 24. According to an “eyewitness account” passed by the field censor and made available by the Ministry of information, the British Expeditionary Force in France is still in the stage of moving up to positions and concentrating its forces preparatory to going into action. Along roads between the coast and the area “somewhere in France” where the force is situated army traffic moves in a procession that is practically continuous. Most cordial relations between the British troops and the French people are reported. “You English do not come as strangers as in 1914, but like old friends,” said one landlady. The new battle dress of the British Army is an object of curious interest. A statement from “Eyewitness,” now “somewhere in France” with the British. field force, describes the vast preparation which is going steadily forward for the welfare of the British expeditionary force. The complicated mechanism of transferring an army as a going concern from England to France has now got thoroughly into its stride and the admirable co-operation of the French is reducing hitches to a minimum. The ramifications of this huge organization are controlled from a .series of modest-loking houses. The main headquarters are in a handsome public building where the local authorities plan to put up a tablet commemorating the fact, but for the moment it must be nameless. POLES IN FRANCE Order To Report For Military Service (Received September 25, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. The Paris correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says the Polish Ambassador has ordered all Poles between the ages of 17 and -15 years resident in France to report by September 29 in readiness for compulsory service in the Polish army which Is being formed in France. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press reports that 400,000 Poles are believed to be affected by the calling-up order. SOVIET AMBASSADOR'S VISIT The British Foreign Secretary. Lord Halifax, received the Soviet Ambassador to London, M. Maisky, at the Foreign Office on Saturday night.—By tjladio.