THE SPORTING ENGLISH.

Bruce Herald, Volume LII, Issue 23, 23 March 1916, Page 3

THE SPORTING ENGLISH.

HUNS PERPLEXED. Gorman officers have been commenting to the correspondent of the 'Chicago Tribune' on what they term. British ideas of sport in relation to the war. They state that British prisoners who have been captured in enterprises which seem to the 'Germans to be mad invariably observe, "Well, it was a sporting thing to do." "War," severely observed one officer, "is not sport, it is The officers asked a captive, English airman who had flown over the -'German lines: "What did you learn?" "As it happened, I did not learn much," the airman replied with a smile; "but it was a good eporting proposition." The correspondent says the Germans regard such a man as verruckt (cracked).