INGLORIOUS DEATHS.
GENERAL’S WAR BOOK. Received August 9. 10.45 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 8. “The Men I Killed” is the title of a book written by Brigadier-General Crozier, who describes how he himself shot a young British officer who was running when he had, orders to hold tli© line at all costs. “Panic spreads so easily,” he adds. Ho also ordered machine-guns and. rifles to be trained on fleeing Portu-7 guese allies on another occasion and himself shot an infuriated British soldier attacking a Frenchwoman during a retreat. He says that other officers did similarly. One emptied his revolver into .soldiers who were panic-stricken.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 8
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103INGLORIOUS DEATHS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 9 August 1937, Page 8
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