WHAT THEN ?
HARASSED GERMANS ILL. LONDON, August 29. A letter from a German in the Thirteenth Army Corps, picked up on the Somme, states: "Tlie whole corps is suffering from dysentery as the result of eight days and nights' fighting without hot food, being parched with thirst in tho daytime. The whole battlefield is full of dead. We were ordered not to take prisoners, but to dispatch them all with the bayonet." The writer adds: "That would not be so bad. but the English also take prisoners. What then?"
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 6
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