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> BRITISH MILITARY COMMAND SIR A. SAVELL APPOINTED. OUTCOME OF ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY. July 20. Lieut-General Sir Archibald Saveli has been appointed to the newly created post of General Officer Command ing in-Chief. to command the British land forces in the Middle East. His functions will be in peace time to supervise the preparation of the defence plans of those forces and in war time to co-ordinate their actions. The "Daily Telegraph” says the recent commitments to Turkey and Greece increase the responsibilities that Britain already has in the Middle East and in those circumstances it is an elementary precaution to create a new office specially charged with the defence of an area vital to British Empire communications. “The Times” military correspondent says the step is a wise one.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 5
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138MIDDLE EAST Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1939, Page 5
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