NOT FAIR FIGHT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 4

NOT FAIR FIGHT

BRITISH METHOIIg

Rommel's "Whine" Agaiigi Maori Scalphunters

United Press Association— Copyright ? Rec. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, oSjfsf Rommel, addressing a Prem ference in Berlin, said: "The I'-se foreign troops, like the uSS scalphunters. This results in methods of fighting. The penetrate a position and simnhrSSA everybody. Wc have to rwrtir «S '- such methods with hard rn&umJ?! although we prefer a fair of warfare. u,^*PQt«

"We arc 60 miles from and have the gate to Eevotmi?hands," Rommel added. "WetetSS" to act and will hnjd what we 00*12?* "The first American taak*i& encountered were badly and -poorly armoured and nrrmS worthless. We faced major mnrift ties of American war the last battle, in which the Anwi? can tanks proved considenSP better than before., but they lying behind our lines. We mS destroyed about 2500 tanks July,"

In a message from Sydney -tiP special correspondent of the ftS? Association says that RommelVmf raged feelings against «Hin!fcpS fighting methods of the MSi "scalphunters" have received eSut sympathy in Australia. "The New Zealanders "PPlTtiilW" refuse to carry on the wr a<yvwsw£ to the rules that the Nazis prescribe for them," Sydney Morning Herald editoriafiv ,to-day. "So dead are these wan-tan to a sense of all gentlemS&t behaviour that they position and simply kill everybody— whereas killing everybody it gj£»§i§ be understood is a privilege res3S§# for the Herrenvolk. The heartiaP the Nazis turn soft and they ridmF when they themselves are vtrtiSjl? of the ruthlessness which theytf ploy against conquered natioot, "It is the old familiar Gmmmixture of whining and bullyinfXf turns. Surely recollections oTHB (formidable fighting qualities of " New Zealand troops in the last Jm should have forewarned the Ibflii of the consequences of provtnfii another quarrel with them, ,r y3 paper concludes.