BRITISH TROOPS

Evening Star, Issue 23380, 25 September 1939, Page 7

BRITISH TROOPS

STEADY FLOW TO FRANCE SHIPS LEAVING EVERY DAY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 23. “ Every day troop transports slip inconspicuously into a French harbour bringing fresh instalments of British soldiers.” Thus begins accounts by an “eye-witness,” who travelled in one such ship. Packed with high-spirited men, the ship left the English shores in company with other transports and escorted by destroyers. All on board soon settled down to the inevitable pastimes of cards, sing-songs, and the strong, sweet tea of the British Army. Tho voyage passed uneventfully, the escorts keeping possible submarines at bay, and this batch of transports, as have all others so far, safely entered the French harbour. Before tho destroyers turned for homo to collect another batch, the “ eye-witness ’’ and his fellows disembarked. Every now and then a troop train crowded -. itli cheering soldiers leaves tho station, hut always the town is full of khaki-clad men, for as fast as one crowd leaves, other transports have safely docked and a broad river of men from the coast to “ somewhere in France ” steadily flowc in and on.