THE GERMAN AS HE IS

Evening Star, Issue 16778, 5 July 1918, Page 3

THE GERMAN AS HE IS

The following loiter, written to a member of the M-vM. Red Gn--:- executive, hy a New /g.'i 1 uni -,■■?:]:,.r in Br-nckcnhur.-l lios|iitul, v;:ii iivi-i with intcrn.<t.You will bo siirrOc I lu see I an bnvk in Ta.d.o'd. tl.-i? lime in the Ims]ii[::i was ;:.-o and a Iw-d tb.rw’t. Not very i.ri'ji r iis. i- n ? ev.mjgli In give me a 1,,.;;,i:,v ;■:'; ■!• Mix moni’)'-- over in France. In f.rat, lam now- feeling qr.’.’.-c lot better. and 1 hj ;ve cn'iv laa'ii be.-' three day?. 1 <l:d nut, get- a gnat lot of 'lie gas, so my lane-a are" still ie-irlv goo-dy the throat an fieri d wm-t of all. and 1 hj" l ' 1 ' wot been able to spt?ak ftinco I got it. ATc- are (jEitf n busy t-irr.e out iu L Igio.-g just how. a-s you will have wen hy the newsuapev?. ’Oid Fritz has been making his big attack ; but- he can never lieat us—of that lam sure. Ho may piisn ns back.

as he has nidi large numbers of men eoncentniod on the Lililcfr-nt. but- he can never boat enr boys; and lie is paying a in; die, I Me:: f G the rtna’l unwind of jrroutul ho has won. I can ae.iuro you that our guns a.ro talcing heavy toll in his - ;!;(> I-l-a ? iv li-a has lost 300,000 men. I quite behove, it, and betore x-aie battle ends !;■■ wdl iase many r-v-;e. The German': -are the lowest, type jean on i-liis err l fi. ;"d no one should 1; .. a t i„. •a'.rrv if they were all wiped ~ul.. Lou wfil lie.ir pco.de say ; "Oh, perhaps some of thorn a.re- bc-d. i kr.-ow good G ©mans.” I say "Never.” I hero are no , 00-d (r-.-mw-ns ; they are, one and nil, rotten. ab-Milatelv. Tn New Zealand, ilio {leoj lo do net- know, will thev know until alter the war, of

r ot tho niost MtT'ociuiH ci’inicH, coin-initl.'-rl bv ilvvc " knltured ” eriinmal?. I will tell " yen of cm* that hapfeiwd mit v.-jairo i v.'i? in Bciginm ; and it i :: true, hecauso I -was ttiete. In it liosnd.al iheic were some German prisoners wo;king: rutting a hed-gp du'vu. A British muse, coming down, had occasion to pass a. O-er-rnan working on this hedge. As .'-■ ho jiassod him .ho do'iboratc’.y slashed lu-r .?.ero''S th>) Troast with his hedge hook. Needless to tsay, reven-gs was very swiftly taken bv on A mtralian who rushed up. f);;o hayonc-t thrust and it w»s all over. Neve, do vi-'; tiiink we could e'er tano such n-i-opk' back, into oar tnsfc after the war? i’iuu, is one of their crimes—onl\ one, and perhaps a, slight, one in compaxi.-0.-i. Tho other "day as I came a no.** from Franco T had to wait nt the divseuig station at Dover for a. Red Cior-? traui to the hospital, and as i lay there on a. stretcher a strocchc-r was plavcd alongsido mo on which lav a Now /Lala-nal boy who had ins? bom' brought back from Switzerland after 10 m©.;tits' internment in Germany as *iri? ow-v of war. 1 was told he had j-e.?t landed, and 1 can tell yon lie looked fcftrfvl Tho medical orderly_ told mo that pp,-. G, rnni-us had w>i fed Inin, and that r-d it i’ t- ban’ll for the parcels ho had reteivol ho would Jklvo died. I wan soiry J ret nave a, talk to him, but 1 cr/TMtiiT -q-euk. Anyway, I wish you v uifi : . toil Mlrs Jacks’ui that onr Ijoys in (ffinn .nv want mi reels very much mere than Iho boss baring Now Zealand. They ~,-o Ml right and w<Al looked after, buttbs? pu-iian'ers arc not fed, and roly a-l most entirely on i-ho parcels, which, I beliova, me delivered fairly regularly.