BRITISH FORCES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 253, 25 September 1939, Page 8

BRITISH FORCES.

A CONTINUAL STREAM. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Sept. 23. “Every day troop transports slip inconspicuously into a Frenen iuuoour bringing fresh instalments of British soldiers.” Thus begins an account by an eye-witness who travelled in one such ship. Packed with high-spirited men, the ship left English shores in company witli other transports and escorted by destroyers. All on board soon settled down to the inevitable pastimes of cards, sing-songs and the strong, sweet tea of the British Army. The voyage passed uneventfully, the escorts keeping possible submarines at bay, and this batch of transports, as all others so far, safely entered the French harbour.

Before the destroyers turned for home to collect another batch, the eyewitness and Ilia fellows disembarked. Every now a,nd then a troop train crowded with cheering soldiers leaves the station, but always the town is full of khaki-clad men, for as fast as one crowd leaves other transports have 6afely docked and the broad river of men from the coast to “somewhere in France” steadily flows in and on. i