A WAR LEGEND
RUSSIANS THROUGH ENGLAND AN EXPLANATION. (FKOsr Our Own Correspondent.) (By Air Mail) LONDON, October 5. The old legend of the " Russians," who travelled through England in the early days of the Great War, is referred to in a book on " Lord Lovat," by Sir Francis Lindley. The author says that Lord Lovat had so organised his famous scouts that at the outbreak of war mobilisation was effected without a hitch. Men and stores poured in from all the scattered counties in the north by road, rail, and sea. "It was during the movement of the brigade from Blairgowrie to Huntingdon that the rumour was first heard, that a force of Russians had landed in the North of Scotland and travelled south, and there is little doubt that it arose in connection with this movement. " Some spoke a foreign language and wore queer headgear; when asked whence they came by benevolent ladies who had organised a canteen on York platform, they could only mutter Ross-shire (Russia)."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 5
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168A WAR LEGEND Otago Daily Times, Issue 22714, 29 October 1935, Page 5
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