WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 June 1942, Page 7

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

ARMY TRAINING. LONDON, June 19. The commanding officers of the British Army have been ordered to enter battle schools for training in the command of troops under modern war conditions. Special courses for colonels will be as strenuous and exacting as those for junior officers. Reporting this, the “Evening Standard” states that live ammunition will be used and commanders will be required to move at the double. It is probable that even generals will be sent to a special school.

MINERS 'RESUME

LONDON. June 20

After publication of the Greene report, twenty-three hundred striking miners in Yorkshire decided to return to work.

SENEGALESE TROOPS

RUGBY. June 20.

Four hundred officers and men who fought against the British in the action at Diego Suarez, in Madagascar, joined the Free French forces when their ship called at a British African port. This was announced to-day by the Free French headquarters in London, where it was added that most of these men belonged to a regiment of Senegalese sharpshooters, France’s crack colonial infantry. One of their officers said: “My men in Madagascar have been subjected to intensq anti-Allied propaganda. They were told that Britain wanted to seize the French empire, and that General de Gaulle was a traitor to France. On their way here they found for themselves numerous proofs to the contrary. They also heard of Bir Hacheim. and that was enough for them."