TROOPS PRAISED

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 5

TROOPS PRAISED

GENERAL'S TRIBUTE CAPE COMPANIES SERVICE IN SUDAN ADVANCE IN ABYSSINIA (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m.' RUGBY, Feb. 28. Speaking over the North African broadcast system, the British Comman-cler-in-Chief in the Middle East, General Sir Archibald Wavell, paid a striking tribute to the work of the Cape companies. General Wavell, who was visiting troops at a place some 12 miles south of the Kenya-Abyssinian border, said: “Thq body of men who are doing extraordinarily fine work both here and further north are the Cape drivers of transport companies. * “As I came through the Sudan on my way down here, the general commanding there particularly spoke to me about the work these companies—which have been lent by the Union to the Sudan—were doing in the advance in Eritrea. “Down here General Cunningham tells me the same thing. “I am very fortunate to have these magnificent troops under my command. I know that whatever they do and wherever thesy go they will give an extraordinarily good account of

themselves. I am extremely proud to have them under my command, and 1 wish them all good fortune.”