A SPORTING GERMAN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16408, 9 December 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

A SPORTING GERMAN.

! "omk Germans are real sports, and some i hough we find : t hard to believe in these i (lays—have even a sense of humour. Jean , Kennedy, in "Sun. Sand and Sin." .tells ; a story in connection with <General Botha's ; recent campaign in S-;:' 1 . West Africa, I which deserves to be vij, !_>• "own as a j corrective of the s io-.r>. tot r.n „v ai ■' tot. I true, alas! Tim inspires disgust oi > ■ German character, It is of an enemy ;ivi- > ".tor named Mailer, who, in his Tail be, fle.v i over the field where a match between the .Transvaal Scottish «nd Nats' Field Artil lery was in progress He hovered about tor some time, and even, >ody was expecting the usual donation of bombs. How- • ever, nothing happened, and, after recon- | noitwng for some time', the grey Taube I went away. Next day came the wireless message: " Sorry to trouble you, but can you tell me who won.''' It was this same j Mailer who flew over the British camp on Christmas Day and dropped a bolster containing a bottle of wholly and a plumpudding. But the writer, while giving the j enemy his due when he deserves ft, is j under no illusion. Here, for insta*;. «■', ; « , hi-r story of what happened to three Hot- | Unlets, whom the Hermans captured: "We s:'W the bodies hanging from a tree when wo readied the place next day. llie-f devils knew that we'd ' give the creatures decent burial, and they'd made their vile iilans. Three men of the Transvaal Scottish advanced to cut down the bodies, but before they could touch tincords it was done for them. Tree Hoti tentots. and men went skvwanl- a* the | mines exploded, and there were six tc . bury instead of three—or, rather, bits cl them."