THE SAAR

Evening Star, Issue 21908, 20 December 1934, Page 9

THE SAAR

FEELINGS ABATED AWAITING ARRIVAL OF BRITISH TROOPS Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright SAARBRUCKEN, December 19. The Justice case will be heard in the local Police Court. Major Hennessy, a member of Mr Knox’s personal staff, will replace Major Hcmsley, who declares that his resignation was not requested. The Saarlanders’ feelings have abated, and they are more cheerfully awaiting the influx of British troops, of whom forty have already arrived in order to prepare the canteen. BRITISH CONTINGENT AT CALAIS CALAIS, December 19. Two contingents of British troops, comprising nearly 400 officers and men, were welcomed at the quayside by a company of French soldiers and enthusiastic crowds, recalling the enthusiasm of 1914. COMMANDER'S ORDERS TO TROOPS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 19. (Received December 20, at noon.) Brigadier Priestman, commander of the British contingent in the Saar, has issued the following order to the troops: —“ We are being sent out on a rather peculiar job. Until we get there we shall not know exactly what it amounts to. Whatever this job proves to be we shall carry it out honourably, and remember, we must be punctiliously polite to the inhabitants, while at the same time never being caught off our guard, and in all circumstances we must uphold the great traditions of our Old Country regiments, and, therefore, of the British infantry. We infantrymen know there is nothing better.”

ARRIVAL OF BRITISH TROOPS SAARBRUCKEN, December 19. (Received December 20, at 1.5 p.m.) The first detachment of the British contingent, whom the Nazi papers counselled the public to welcome calmly as Christmas guests from Old England, marched down the streets to their billets, while citizens silently watched. The police precautions wCre superfluous.