GROTESQUE FICTION IN GERMAN PRESS
ALLEGED INTERVIEW WITH A CANADIAN. (Reo .June 2, 6.15 p.m.) London, Juno 2. A German newspaper has published a fictitious interview .wita a Canadian, who_ complains of his treatment by the British, and declares that the German's are better soldiers. The English, he is made to say, regard the Canadians as halfway between coloured troops and themselves, and they always send the coloured troops first under lire. They send the Canadians 'where the Hell is hottest,' and the English only advance after we have shed our blood."
An English officer is reported in the ! same paper as saying that the Senegalese troops are "mere cattle to be driven to the front with a riding whip." The German newspapers assert that many of the English,prisoners make an unfavourable impression, being mostly factory hands, out of work, who - were induced to enlist owing to bitter need, and led to battle after tlirde weeks' training.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 5
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161GROTESQUE FICTION IN GERMAN PRESS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2478, 3 June 1915, Page 5
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