STOPPING PANICS

Grey River Argus, 10 August 1937, Page 6

STOPPING PANICS

MACHINE GUN Turned on British Troops IN THE GREAT WAR. GENERAL CROZIER’S REVELATIONS. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.l LONDON, August 8. “The Men I Killed” is the title of a book written by Brigadier General Crozier, who described how he himself shot a young British officer who was running, when he had Orders to hold at all costs. “Panic spreads so easily.” He also ordered machine-guns and rifles to be trained on fleeing Portuguese allies. On another occasion he himself shot an infuriated British soldier attacking a Frenchwoman during the retreat. He says that other officers did similarly. One emptied a revolver into the soldiers panicking. (Received August 8, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 9. General Crozier told the “Daily Mail” that his shooting of a subaltern was not reported to the War Office. Colonel Graham oeton-Hutchison stated that, as was related in the Official History of the War, he had been obliged to turn a machine-gun on the British troops at .Meteren in 1918. A War Office official told the “Daily Mail” that, if there are no official records of what General Crozier has described, then a strict official inquiry should be held.