TROOPS IN THE SAAR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 6

TROOPS IN THE SAAR

COMMANDANT’S MESSAGE “RATHER PECULIAR JOB” (British Official Wireless,) Bee. 2 p.m! .RUGBY, Doe. 19. Brigadier Piiqstman, commander of tln> British contingent in the Saar, lias issued the following order to tho troops: “We are being sent out on a rather peculiar job. Until we get there, we shall not Know exactly what it amounts to. Whatever this job proves to be,, we shall carry it out honorably, and remember that we must be punctiliously polite to the inhabitants, while at the same time never being caught otf our guard, and in all circumstances we must uphold the great traditions of our old country regiments, and, therefore, of the British infantry. We infantrymen know there is nothing better,” Tho parties in the Saar have agreed to a four-day Christmas truce in the political campaign. Tho first detachment of the British contingent, whom the Nazi papers counselled the public to welcome calmly as Christmas guests from old England, marched down the streets to their billets, while t lie citizens silently watched. Police precautions were .superfluous.