CHINESE FIELD-MARSHAL
Valued at 20 Cases of Milk SIR WM. BIRDWOOD'S STORY PEETH, Aug. 24. Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, replying to a welcome at Collie on Saturday, valued a field-marshal in terma of condensed milk. After listening to eulogies of his progress in the British Army, he said that in one of many wars in China one fcide c-aptured the field-marshal and refused to return him nnless the opposition supplied it with 20 cases of condensed milk. "Tkal, I tlxink," he said, ' 1 gives you an idea of tho actual value of a fieldmarshal." War^ said Sir William Birdwood, was brutal,' and none Tealised it more than those who took part in it, but every man who was able slvould jdin the defence forcos, not fbr war, but for defenee. "I am not advocating militariem," he said. "Every able-bodied man should be able to defend his hom» and country."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 193, 1 September 1937, Page 9
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