NO CASUALTIES
TRANSPORTATION OF TROOPS
Discussing the successful transport to France of the British Expeditionary Force of 158,000 men, AA'ithout a single casualty and in complete free Chester Guardian draws some comdom from enemy attack, the Manchester Guardian draws some comparisons : "The Army has been enabled to take up its positions Avith that orderliness Avhich sufficient time can give. In the last Avar AA r e Avere pressed; the Expeditionary Force began to cross on August 9 and fired its first shots against a German picket near Mons on August 22. The War Minister made some comparisons between this force and the one of 25 years ago. Then more than half the Army Avere infantrymen Avich lavo machine guns to a battalion, now the infantry make only one-fifth of the total and cnch battalion has 50 Bren guns and sixteen anti-tank rifles. For 800 mechanised vehicles there are uoav 25,000 some of them tanks as heaA T y as fifteen tons. It is a force not only larger in numbers but immensely richer in mach-
ines of war."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 93, 27 November 1939, Page 3
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178NO CASUALTIES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 93, 27 November 1939, Page 3
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