WAR LEGEND EXPLAINED
"RUSSIANS" IN ENGLAND. SCOTS FROM ROSS-SHIRE. The old legends 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 carried out 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 Balgowrie 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," the story says. "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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Waipa Post, Volume 81, Issue 3691, 29 November 1935, Page 8
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163WAR LEGEND EXPLAINED Waipa Post, Volume 81, Issue 3691, 29 November 1935, Page 8
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