BMDEN'S VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9

BMDEN'S VISIT.

HINT TO AUCKLAND.

Germany's Tributes To Anzac

Dead.

CAPTAIN BEAN'S VIEWS.

(Australian and N.Z. Press Association.)

(Received 10.30 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day,

The dilemma of the civic authorities of Auckland over the visit of the German cruiser Emden is discussed by Captain Bean, the official war historian for Australia. Hβ says: "If the Emden were to come to Australia it would lie my hope that she be honourably received. We were pretty 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 prisoner by the Turks, German officers stepped in and saved them from the 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 and wearing several decorations, also an Iron Cross, place wreaths on the Anzac memorial at Lone Pine and Holies, both of which bore fitting inscriptions from the German Navy.

Captain Bean points out that the reported brutalities of the German armies were vastly overestimated and had caused much post-war prejudice.