"MEN I KILLED"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 7

"MEN I KILLED"

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Ex-Servicemen Re-fint Charge of Cowardice BOOK AROUSES STORM

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j LONDON, Aug, 22. ' LThe Sunday Gr.aphic quotes ex-ofilcerSj land ex-soldiers as demanding an official inquiry into General .Crozier's attacks on .the British Army.in, the hook, "Men; il Killed," details. .of, which were re-! cently cahled, .They insist he should suhstantiate pr .withdraw the suggestion that men were kept in tho front line during the Great War owing to £he, fear of the (lolonel's revolver, The Graphie adds: "General Cro-. zier's attack on the courage of Britishi soldiers, Welshmen and Irish Hilles, has aroused the indignation pf tAi British Legion, the Ex-BerviceOien. 'aj Welfare Bociety and ex-servicem.en generally. Possibly the most .effective reply to' General Croziex; is by Mr. Beverleyj Baxter, citing the words of the son of! a dead soldier: "My father gave his life, not becduse hc ieared a colonel's revolver, but. for the sake of niyself, then a baby, and the womenfolk at; home." A lifleman is quoted, who pungentlyj remarks: "I served six months with al fcattalion, nine-tenths of whom werej undor 19. I never saw one turn back; nor show a sign of cowardice fior! brasshat nearer. than base head-' quarters. "The battalipn was led by subalternsi who oftener than not died in first or; second attack,"-