ALLIED WARRIORS.
PROVISION OF ARMS. (British Official AVireless.) _ RUGBY, Aug. 10. Un a high windswept down in the Home counties Czech, Norwegian, Dutch and Belgian officers were given a demonstration of the various types of arms these soldiers will use in the coming decisive battles for world freedom. Unlike the French, for whom F reneh arms brought back from Norway are available, many of these other soldiers of the Allied cause arrived m England without equipment and will have to l>e refitted with those arms used by the British Army. . Ihe Czech soldiers are specially pleased to be larmed again with the Bren gum, to which, of couree, tliev are well used and which they hold in high regard General Freicher, who commands the Norwegian forces, is specially impressed with the Vickers heavy gun.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 218, 13 August 1940, Page 2
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