THE SALUTE
Sir,-i have known for years that there was something wrong with our British salute, but until last night I did not know what. Here is the secretrevealed by. William Forbes-Mitchell, late Sergeant, Ninety-third Sutherland Highlanders, in his Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny: "Among several candidates brought by the head-man was a_ fine-looking old man, who gave me an unmistakable milftary salute in the old style, square from the shoulder — quite different from the present mongrel German salute, which the English army has taken to imitating since the Germans beat their old. conquerors, the French; I mean the present mode of saluting with the palm of the hand turned to the front."
SALAAM
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 193, 5 March 1943, Page 3
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115THE SALUTE New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 193, 5 March 1943, Page 3
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