HOW THE RUSSIANS GOT TO FRANCE
TO THB EDITOR, Sir,— The belief so commonly reported and persistently believed in that a Russian army arrived in Scotland and was at the front some weeks ago must have been occasioned by the broad Scottish accent of the Seaforth Highlanders when going to France. A Yorkshire paper now gives the following: "A train with Seaforths passed through Yorkshire in the night' and stopped ,at a small station, where only a sleeping porter was on duty. Some of the 'Kilties ' got out in their long coats, and as they stumped upon the platform they talked in their native tongue— the Gaelic. ' Where do you come »from?' asked the porter. ' Ross Shire,' was the answer. Let any Scot, Highland or Lowland, say ' Ross Shire,' and nine out of ten Englishmen will imagine he means ' Russia. Who, then, could doubt the identity of big soldiers in long coats talking a strange language and actually stating that they came from ' Russia ' ? That is how the Russians got to France."— l am, etc., 17th November. K. D. ML.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 122, 19 November 1914, Page 2
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