"While the world was reading of German advances into Poland, British soldiers, resolved to rectify this wrong, were passing silently and in unceasing sequence across the Chai fel into France.
"How strange it is that twice in a generation men should take this journey, and that some should be treading again upon soil made sacred by their fathers.
"We may rest assured that they will acquit themselves with the same tenacity, courage and endurance. (However long the struggle, and however great the ordeal, they will, as our soldiers did before, take our arms and our cause of freedom to victory." Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.