GREAT SEND-OFF.
Germans Farewell British
Tommies.
FIRST UNIT LEAVES RHINE
(United Service.) (Received 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 23. A Wiesbaden message states that the 2nd Leicestershires, consisting of 400 men, accompanied by several wives and children, the first unit to leave the Rhine, received an extraordinary send-off. In a pitiless rain thousands of townspeople cheered lustily as the train left Koenigstein station and the troops burst put singing "Auld Lang Syne." "The British soldier has been friendly, pleasant and a perfect gentleman," stated the "Tannus Zeitung," the official organ of the Wiesbaden municipal authority.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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94GREAT SEND-OFF. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 226, 24 September 1929, Page 7
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