SHOOTING OF TROOPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 214, 10 August 1937, Page 7

SHOOTING OF TROOPS.

INQUIRY MIGHT BE HELD. LONDON, Aug. 9. Brigadier-General Crozier told the Daily Mail that his shooting of the subaltern was not reported to the War Office. Colonel Graham Set on Hutchison stated, as related in the official history of the War, that he was obliged to turn a machine-gun on British troops at Meteren in 1918. A War Office official told the Daily Mail that, if there were no official records of what Brigadier-Genera] Crozier described, a strict official inquuy should be held.

Brigadier-General F. P. Crozier wan lately Inspector-General of the Lithuanian Armv and military adviser to the .Lithuanian Government. His first active service was during the South African War, and his career in tho period before the Great War is studded with minor engagements. He served throughout the Great War becoming General Officer Commanding ’the 40th Division (France) in 1919. General Crozier then served with the Lithuanian Army against the Germans m tho Baltic later in tho same year, against the Bolsheviks in the following year and again on the Polish front. He has written a number of books, including “A Brass Hat in No Man’s Land.” Colonel Hutchison was the author of tho book, “W Plan,” which was subsequently made into a talking film. Ho entered tho King’s Own Soottish Borderers in 1909 and after the war became first chairman of the Old Contemptiblcs’ Association. In 1932 he was appoined first principal of tho Shri Shivaji Military School, Poona.