OLD SOLDIERS MEET

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIX, Issue 86, 28 October 1938, Page 8

OLD SOLDIERS MEET

HITLER AND HEAD OF BRITISH

LEGION

WAR TIME STORIES SWOPPED

(From The Guardian's London

Correspondent)

LONDON, October 1

Details revealed this week of the meeting between Sir Frederick Maurice, president of the British Legion, and Herr Hitler, in Berlin, show that when Sir Frederick first put forward the Legion's offer to act as a neutral police force during the

demarcation of new Czechoslovak frontiers, the German Chancellor's attitude was formal, almost cool.

He heard the offer, signified his agreement, but did not make it clear whether he regarded it as a possible alternative to his proposed advance into Sudetenland or merely as a means of keeping order in those other areas in which he has demanded a plebiscite by November 25.

Then the ex-corporal of the German Army and the former Director-Gen-eral of Military Operations to the British Army began to talk of their war experiences. Before long they had discovered that at one time they were almost directly opposite each other at Witchaet, a village near the Messines Ridge. Two old soldiers making such a discovery could not long remain on formal terms. The interview was prolonged as they swopped stories, and at its close the Fuhrer wrung Sir Frederick's hand.