SYSTEMATIC SNIPING OF STRETCHER-BEARERS.
pf BRITISH OFFICE'S VERBAL PROTEST TO ENEMY. Ipfi Times. (Received 8.40 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 14. I?!?., Mr. Percy Robinson, again confirming recent German violations Ip I of the Red Cross, says that in some units the proportion of casualties lift; - among the stretcher-bearers exceeds those of the infantry, as the M: result of deliberate sniping. Two days ago three out of four members pf V of a stretcher party were sniped at close range, and shot dead. A J:'-'", British officer in a shell hole near by, seeing the shooting, seized a K Red Cross flag and, waving it conspicuously, marched straight at the lly sniper's hiding-place. He halted a few yards from the German posiite tion. The Germans, presumably out of curiosity, withheld their fire. lp| Speaking in German the officer poured out his indignation, pointing IBS out that the German stretcher-bearers were moving about unmolested. Ipf The Germans listened in silence. The officer finished, turned back, 18®' tossed away the flag, and floundered back into the shell hole. 'WSfi j gbg- — —
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16671, 16 October 1917, Page 5
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