ONCE A GERMAN ALWAYS A HUN.
. There is a passage in a letter of Sir Charlw Napier (published in Sir Herbert Maxwell'B "Life of Wellington") which, t think, will interest your readers (writes a correspondent of 'The Daily Mai!'). Writing to his mother in August, 1807, after describing the operations against the Danish Army and the comparative failure of the German contingent to co-operate effectively, he goes on to say! "Ijcan, however, assure you thai," frqm- |ho genera] of ih© Germans down id Hho smallest «lnjmboy in their legion, the earth never groaned with such a set of -murdering:, mfanl6tt6 -villains. Tbe# murdered, roljlwld and ill-treated the peasantry whenever they w«nt, v
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Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 4 June 1917, Page 3
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112ONCE A GERMAN ALWAYS A HUN. Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 4 June 1917, Page 3
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