Instant Death far Use Of Foreign Uniforms
GERMANS WARNED LONDON, May 20. Tne 8.8. C. to-night breeders* in German, "Every German soldier must know that whoever, in violation of international law, fights in an enemy Uniform must expect to be shot immediately when taken prisoner.” | The military correspondent of the 'London 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 a foreign uniform differ from franc tireurs (civilian irregulars) and therefore they do not merit treatment as prisoners of war.” “Berlin officials said that if it were true that German paratroops had landed in Crete, Mr. Churchill’s assertion that they wore New Zealana Uniforms was absolutely false. They added that German paratroops had recently been equipped with khaki uniforms similar to those of German troops in Africa for use in tropical clrmates “so t mistake might have beta made.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 120, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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