POST-WAR PREJUDICE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 49, Issue 199, 8 June 1929, Page 5

POST-WAR PREJUDICE.

FEELING AGAINST.GERMANS.

BRUTALITIES OVER-ESTIMATED.

(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.15 a.m.) . ' SYDNEY, This Day. The dilemma of the ciyio authorities of Auckland over the Emden is discussed by Captain C. E. W. Bean, official war historian for Australia. Captain Bean says : "If the Emden were to come to Australia it would be my hope that she would me honourably received. We were very suspicious of German officers at Gallipoli, but I know that throughout that , struggle the German army fought a clean campaign. Many a time when our men were taken prisoners by the Turks, German officers stepped in and saved them from savagery or, more frequently, the inefficiency of the Turks."

Captain Bean recalled an unrecorded incident during his/ recent tour of the battlefields, when he noticed a man in mufti, wearing several decorations, also the Iron Cross, place a wreath on the Anzac memorial at Lone Pine and one at Helles. Both wjeaths bore fitting inscriptions from the German Navy. . Captain Bean points out the reported brutalities of the German army Avere vastly over-estimated and had caused much post-war prejudice.