COULD BEAT KAISER’S MEN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9392, 11 March 1909, Page 7

COULD BEAT KAISER’S MEN.

A piquant story of a wager was told by Brigadier-General Stuart Wortley in a speech of farewell to the Ist Battalion of Royal Scots at Shornoliffe. The regiment is bound for India. ° . “I never could have a better regiment under my command,” said the general. “When I was over at the German manoeuvres I had the honour of speaking to His Majesty the Emperor, and on his asking my opinion of his regiments, and their manoehvring, I remarked, ‘I have a regiment in my brigade which could hold its own against any Your Majesty could bring forward, and I am willing to make a heavy wager as to the truth of that if they could be pitted against one another. That regiment is the Royal Soots. Now I wish to speak of your going to India. You being the first regiment numerically in the British army, lam certain you will hold that position always in everything you take part in.” / The Scots seemed intensely amused at the account of the wager.