KIPPENBERGER IN ENGLAND

Evening Star, Issue 25170, 9 May 1944, Page 4

KIPPENBERGER IN ENGLAND

WAITING FOR NEW FEET HOPES FOR JOB IN " INVASION STUNT " (N.Z.P.A, Special Correspondent.) (Ree. 8 a.m.) LONDON. May 8. "1 am here to get new feet. They should be ready in six weeks' time, when I will feel perfectly all right to do a fighting job,".said Major-general 11. K. Ifipipervberger, chatting at Queen Mary's Military Hospital, Roehampton. A tribute to General /Kippenberger was paid by the ' News Chronicle;' which says he dismissed his decorations as " gongs for being one of the nimblest shell-dodgers in the Allied

armies," and, though little is known of him in England, he is " idolised by the men he commanded in Greece, Crete, North Africa, and Italy." Commenting on the incident when lie was wounded and lost both his feet. General Kippeinberger said: "I was visiting a forward area in the Cassino sector, well up with the fighting, when T felt a terrific explosion and everything lifted around me. I must have trodden on a cleverly-concealed box-mine, which is known as ' the mankiller.' " He stated that he was waiting for the day when he would be fit enough to do some sort of job in " this invasion stunt" He added: "We shall, of course, bring it off, but the Germans are tough fighters. They fought to the last in Africa, and they have shown themselves tough soldiers in Italy. It is stupid to say that they are a lot of underfed weaklings."