TRUCE TO BURY DEAD
REQUEST AGAIN REFUSED (Rec. 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 29. The Germans on the Italian front yesterday made another vain attempt to win an hour’s truce “to bury their dead,” this time sending as an envoy a Maori whom they captured several days ago. The Maori also carried a pencilled note from a captured New Zealand officer, saying: “I am 0.K., so is my sergeant. Tell his relatives back home he is wounded, but will recover.”
Truce requests lately have been refused because the Germans use them to spy on the Allied line.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25473, 1 March 1944, Page 5
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96TRUCE TO BURY DEAD Otago Daily Times, Issue 25473, 1 March 1944, Page 5
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