Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-28
SOLDIERS
WILL HELP FRENCH
KING HOPES FOR SUCCESS FOR
10000 BRITISH TROOPS SENT
INTO FRANCE.
NOT A SINGLE CASUALTY
Transports Were Sent Across The
Channel by NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Of Britishers Everywhere in
France Cordial.

Londonderry reinforcements for
the lines of the allies battling with the
German armies in Belgium are being
rushed across the English channel by
England.
Plymouth is being used as the prin-
cipal base for the British military OPP
erations. Thousands of soldiers are ar
irving there every day for mobilization
In preparation for embarking.
London displayed little excitement
when it became known British troops
were In France. There were no crowds
around the bulletins, and no rush for
newspapers. There was a stolid, re-
pressed, earnest crowd where recruits
drilled, and at the barracks, where
trained soldiers go through evolutions.
The general routine is little dis
turbed, except for the ~unceasing move
ment through the streets Of troops, am
munition trains and hospital corps.
Tailors and saddlers are rushed with
business. The sign Swords and Bay
onets S~harpened' appears in the cut
lers' windows. No women or children
weep as the troops depart.
Attendance at music halls and the
aters shows nc d%iminution. and many
Americans spend afternoons or even
ings at the playhouses. "Brittania
Rules the Waves" the "Marseilles,"
and the Russian national anthem are
played by orchestras, the audiences
standing.
AS one Highlander regiment went
through the Strand it's band played
Marching Thro' Georgia"
Private homes have been converted
into hospitals, and newspaper depart
ments under the head OF what women
can do" or some similar caption, are
the busiest.
The most important revelation has
been that Of the landing of a British
expeditionary army on the shores of
France. Everybody in England has
known for two weeks that a large
army was crossing the channel. The
troops had been assembled at differ
ent bases, n of the largest contin.
gents embarking at Dublin, iceland.
Many other regiments sailed from IIiv-
erpool, while still others took ship at
East Bourne, Southampton, and other
ports along the coast of the English
channel.
The great canvas camps at the mill
tary states in England were struck
only when 1t was known definitely that
a flotilla of transports conveying the
troops had finished the oversee move
ment under the escort of strong squad
rons of warships.
The transportation of the soldiers
lasted several days, and during that
time not a mention of the expedition
was permitted to the newspapers here.
Even now the strength of the expedi.
ton, the names Of the regiments COM
posing the contingents and the ports
where they landed are not allowed to
be made public.
1t is known, however, that a large
proportion of the best troops of the
British regular army are now on CONT
mental soil. The reception of the Brit.
ish soldiers everywhere in France was
enthusiastic.
The official news bureau says not a
single casualty occurred during the
e~mbarkation, transportation and de-
barkation of the men and stores of the
British expeditionary force, and every
thing was carried through with the
greatest precision.