ALLIED RELATIONS

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 2, 27 September 1939, Page 9

ALLIED RELATIONS

Fraternizing Of Troops

In France

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received September 26, 7.10 p.m.)

RUGBY, September 25.

According to “Eye-Witness,” attached to th* British field forces “somewhere in France," the first British guns to be placed for anti-aircraft purposes in France are the guardians of headquarters, “not a stone’s throw from where this is beiilg written. So far there has not been a single alarm and the gunners have little to do but remain constantly on watch. This antiaircraft unit was among the first British troops to reach France.” In a later account. “Eye-Witness” reports: “Today I visited some recentlyarrived British troops in their present quarters. Billeted in little villages, in farms and castles, the troops are living buried unobtrusively in the depths of the French countryside. So well are they distributed that you could almost drive through the whole area without noticing any unusual concentration of troops.

“Everywhere I went men told me of the kindness of their French hosts. Equally the French pay very warm tributes to the conduct of the British. Headquarters are housed in schools, former convents, and other suitable buildings, in sunny market towns. Officers who fought in the last war remark on the fraternizing between French and British troops as one of the most marked differences between 1914 and 1939.”

GERMAN FREEDOM STATION

Monday night’s broadcast by the anli-Nazi “freedom .station” called on the German workers to join the Czechoslovaks in their revolt against the Nazis, —By radio,