GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 July 1917, Page 6

GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE.

So many evil things have been done | by Germans on the Western front that it is well to set in relief to .them their more humane conduct in the East. On the Egyptian front at least their air service has maintained a chivalrous re- ! lationship between the armies. German airmen flew over our lines, dropping messages asking us to mark the site of our hospitals more clearly, so that they might not be hit, and flying off with the cheery message, "Good luck to the British ambulance." That was not all. A further message was dropped, notifying our command that there had been cholera in tie Turkish ranks, and indicating the place where its victims were buried, so 'that our troops might avoid it. A trap was suspected (such as the desire to conceal a cache of ammunition), and the place was dug up. The German's message proved to be quite true, their spirit was reciprocated, and in this command, as elsewhere, war's strange comradeship of enemies has been kept up. I hear the same account of the East African campaign. Here the German command—a very able one —warned our troops that they had had an outbreak of smallpox and even sent a message to our hospitals that the district, was infested with man-eating lions, and that we should do well to guard the wounded