THAT SIGNIFICANT GERMAN ORDER.

Evening Star, Issue 15777, 14 April 1915, Page 3

THAT SIGNIFICANT GERMAN ORDER.

After the capture of the German ■position in the OuincliV brickfields, a diary was found on an officer containing a reference to an order stating that no prisoners were to bo talcon while the f.Tont Kiiilc was n;l tacking. '.Hie ph.ra.sr? was ambiguous, and did not necessarily mean anything more than that the attacking line was not to stop in order to take prisoners; but it allowed of another interpretation which, in view of the efforts made to inflame the soldiers aginst ns, might easily have been adopted against ns- In the case of the particular regiment referred to, suspicions arc aroused by the fact that some time ago the colonel gave orders that no bnglish prisoners were wanted. A letter from Hanover displays a haunting fear that Groat Britain's resources may wear out Germany in the end, for the writer says :

" T fear that the English will make a. start a fiei 1 Christmas (1914), when we have fought so hard against the French and Russians that we shall be able to do no in ne. Then this treacherous gang will appear on the scene. Up to now we have not heard much about them. - ’ MISCELLANEOUS, one of iho youngest soldiers serving' with the British colors in Franco is Trumpeter Cyril Cock, who was horn in 1900, while his father was on active service, iu i the Boer War. Speaking at a great meeting at Copenhagen recently. Dr Phil Slarckc said : “• .England's greatest characteristic is , her respect for other people’s liberty and her love of justice. The more English the world becomes the more Iranian it will become. lie. adder] amid a salvo of cheets. In the. 1 1 resent war six V.C.s out of 21 given to line regiments and foot guards have gone to Scotch companies. Ltectenant (labitcs, who was formerly with Messrs Ansconiixs and Smith, of lii- | voirargiil, writes irom Egypt describing i the recent tight with the ’ Turks. ’Hie | morning after the brush, ho adds, a Turkj ten oflkvr delivered himself up. and informed the guard that the Turks had been told by the, (ferman officers that the canal "as defended only by "a low Egyptians and some Boy Scouts from Xew Zealand.'’ The Turkish prisoners, after the light, promarvelled at the precocioiisness of the Xew Zealand youth, and thanked their stars that they had not been called uiw>n (n attack grown men from that part of the world. Some extraordinary figures were- submil (eti by Captain Waikley in a recruiting speech at Chc-etbaru. TVt> find at the rc- ; (suiting otfiees. ' he sa>d, *' that the majority oi thci-v who come fonvard are married mem Here are some figures : Out of 1.21)0.000, 9CO.UUO married men liavo come forward and only 300.000 single mem This presents a subject for thought- and for argument.. Seveuty-Hyo per cent, of the men who are at*the front nr who arc in 1 mining at the present moment are married men. I here men have responsibilities, and perhaps young lives dependent upon them, '••hi Ist the young man remains at home and tgiuees Iho call." Tlie 1‘ reneh soldiers adopted an ingeni- ] ons device lo protect themselves from shrapnel. They did it, with their mess pans, fashioning them into little hem] shields and putting them on />vec their kepi-. Alter every fight this makeshift ■ nmor was found to bo scratched and (hided by the impact of the shrapnel built Is, which had not the force r.lifneienfc to penetrate the heavy zinc of the pans. Now the French av*> work!tig to get some sort oi a. head-shield which will afford even latter protection from the shrapnel which comes down fioir. overhead on iho men lying in the trenches. I