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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10062, 29 August 1918, Page 4

The American troops in France, it k stated, have discovered two short cuts to friendship with the poilus wlien they have tho latter for neighbours. They bake a delicious white bread ot their own, but are very partial to the coarser and darker article which its French recipients call a “bran ball,' and find no difficulty in effecting an exchange, which is mutually satisfactory. They have also a superabundance of tobacco—“ American tobacco that smells of honey,” as a Frenchman puts it; a bag of this is commonly bartered for a sLar© of tho soldier s Ixboral wine ration. “He who ill-treats an unarmed man, a prisoner or anyone suffering bodily pain, or insults and abuses him, is not worthy of the name of man ; he is guilty of the great sin which shall never be forgiven in tune or place. Shall wo not still in the storm, the earthquake, and shame of this cruel time endeavour to keep tho standard of clean manhood ?” It is strange to find this passage in a Gorman periodical (says a writer in the “Westminster Gazette”). It is addressed byMaximilian Harden to the French Socialists, who he believes will sympathise with him. The denunciation falls with crushing effect on Harden’s own countrymen, who have ill-treated prisoners of war. He reminds his readers of tho priest in Reims who nt the risk of his life wont to tho help of tho wounded German prisoners in tho cathedral when it had been sot on fire by Gorman shells. That, ho declares, is a model for tho world to follow. Wo can be glad that thoro is ono righteous man in Germany who dares to say as much. An elderly man named Boland Jocelyn Bailey was brought before Mr F. V. Frazer. c.AI , on a charge of stealing goods valued at .£l9 3e Bd, the pro--1 porty of tho Ivow Zealand Qovernj monit. On tho application of the police ja remand was granted for a week.