{"id":10530,"date":"2015-01-20T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10530"},"modified":"2015-01-20T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T11:00:45","slug":"false-rumours-or-counter-intelligence-dis-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/false-rumours-or-counter-intelligence-dis-information\/","title":{"rendered":"FALSE RUMOURS OR COUNTER INTELLIGENCE DIS-INFORMATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Wednesday, January 20, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day:<em> \u201cMusketry on Durrington Range. Duty Battalion.\u201d [1]<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20-Jan-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10285 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/20-Jan-15-300x145.png\" alt=\"20 Jan 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0While the Canadian Contingent continued their training in England, the press in both Britain and Canada carried reports stating that they had already departed for France.\u00a0 The following report carried a month before their actual departure could have been the result of speculation on the part of the reporter, hoping to be first with \u2018breaking news,\u2019 or alternatively it might have been a report issued by the military authorities designed to feed misinformation to the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLondon, Jan. 19. \u2013 Practically all the Canadian soldiers are now upon the continent or on their way to France.\u00a0 Following the removal of the Princess Patricia\u2019s Light Infantry to the battle-front, the work of transporting the other Canadian units to France was hurried to meet new and violent German attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Globe publishes the foregoing under reserve pending official confirmation.\u00a0 There is reason to believe, however, that the movement of the Canadian Expeditionary Force from Salisbury to France started several days ago, hints in the special cables to The Globe and Canadian Associated Press despatches bearing this out.\u00a0 The transfer from Salisbury to France of the 31,000 odd men would take some time, and it is unlikely that any official announcement of the move would be issued until the last man had landed, as was the case with the first British expeditionary army.\u00a0 It is assumed, as stated in previous despatches, that the Canadians will undergo further training in France before going to the firing line.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Jan 20, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089686.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0 \u201cAll The Canadians Landed In France?\u201d <em>The Globe (1844-1936),<\/em> Toronto, Ontario, Wed., January 20, 1915, pg. 1, col. 5.<\/pre>\n<pre>[3] \u00a0\u00a0Ibid<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, January 20, 1915 In Camp, Lark Hill, Salisbury Plains The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cMusketry on Durrington Range. Duty Battalion.\u201d [1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0While<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}