DIFFICULT QUESTION
WEARING OF FOREIGN
UNIFORM
LONDON, May 20,
The 8.8.C. broadcast tonight in German: "Every German soldier must know that whoever, in violation of international law, fights in enemy uniform, must expect to be shot immediately when taken prisoner."
The military correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says: "The German use of New Zealand uniforms raises a difficult question of international law, but it is difficult to see how troops in foreign uniform differ from franc-tir-eurs, and therefore do not merit treatment as prisoners of war."
Berlin officials said today that if it was true that German parachutists landed in Crete, Mr. Churchill's assertion that they wore New Zealand uniforms is absolutely false. It was added that the German parachutists were recently equipped with khaki uniforms similar to those of the German troops in Africa for use in tropical climates, "so a mistake might have been made." —U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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148DIFFICULT QUESTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 119, 22 May 1941, Page 9
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