FORCE FOR SAAR
COMMANDER’S MANIFESTO
UPHOLD BRITISH TRADITIONS. BE POLITE BUT CAUTIOUS. (Ollieiai Wireless.! (Received Dec. 20, 1.45 p.m.) RUGBY, (Dec* 19. Brigadier Prliestman, commander of the British Contingent in the Saar, has issued the following order to 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 honourably, and remember we must be punctiliously polite to the inhabitants, while at the same time never being caught off our guard. “In ail circumstances we must uphold the great traditions of our •old country’s regiments, and therefore of the British infantry. “We Infantry men know there is nothing better."
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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123FORCE FOR SAAR Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19455, 20 December 1934, Page 9
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