EASTERN FORCES
GENERAL WEYGAND’S ARMY TRAINED AND READY FOR ACTION. CO-OPERATION WITH EMPIRE TROOPS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) BEIRUT, March 10.
General Weygand’s army in Syria and Lebanon has completed its training and is ready for a spring offensive irom an}' quarter. Units representing every part of the French empire have been welded into a single fighting machine’.
Moreover an observer who was allowed to watch the training of lhe British, Now Zealand, Australian and Indian troops in Egypt and Palestine expressed the opinion that the British and French forces were so trained that the}' coni' 1 fiehf. easily side by side.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1940, Page 8
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