GERMAN VIOLATIONS OF THE RED CROSS.
PROTESTS BY A BRAVE BRITISH OFFICER. LONDON. Oct. R Mr Pino Robinson, again confirming the recent German violations of the Red Cross, says:—ln some units the profKU-tioii of casualties amongst the stretcher-bearers exceeded those of the infantry, the result of deliberate striping. Two days ago three out of four members of a stretcher party wore eniped at close range and shot dead. A British officer in a shell hole near, seeing the shooting, seized a Red Cross flag, and waving it conspicuously, marched straight to the sniper's hiding place and halted a few yards from the German position. The Germans were presumably curious and withheld their lire. Speaking German, the officer poured out his indignation, pointing out the German stretcher-bearers inoving aboiil unmolested. The Germans listened in silence. and the officer having finished, turned his back, tossed away the flag, and floundered back to the shell hole.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10108, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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