EMBARKING FOR WAR
BRITAIN'S EXPEDITIONARY FORGE LANDED IN FRANCE Received this day, 8.40 a.m. London, Tuesday The Press Bureau states the expedi tionary force safely landed in France. The embarking, transportation, and debarkation of the men and stores were carried out with great precision, and without-a single casualty MESSAGE FROM THE KING LORD KITCHENER'S ADVICE By Telegraph—Extraordinary Press Received this day, 8.45 a.m. London, Tuesday KinjZ George telegraphed a message to the troops, which was read to each regiment before embbarking. Each also carried a little slip of paper signed bv Lord Kitchener, with two Hundred 'words of soldierly advice, telling them to fear God, and honour tbe King. They had to remember they were fighting on the soil of a friendly nation, and were to abstain from liquor and looting; and t3 be courteous to women, but not more than courteous _ The embarkation was a grim and solemn business. There were no farewells on the piers. Long lines of khaki-clad men marched to the docks in the early mozning, and the vessels slipped quietly away
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 696, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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176EMBARKING FOR WAR King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 696, 19 August 1914, Page 5
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