THE END OF A PERFECT LIE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14571, 5 April 1918, Page 3

THE END OF A PERFECT LIE.

U-BOAT COMMA NDFIR HTS ; ■"FINER PEELINGS." J The Freiherr Spiegel von und zu 1 Peckelsheim is a. lieutenant-commander ■, m the German navy. He is — or was — also a IT-boat captain, and, incidentally, is now a. prisoner m British hands. The Freiherr wrote a book called "The Voy- ' L age of U-202," and m it, he described ' /with wealth of G-erman polysyllable hi.^ * rage when he met a British hospital 1 ship. '".'••"' ' < "I stamped on the deck," he wliote, ' "to see it go by flaunting its tied Cross, < with" troops leaning over the side laugh- 1 ] ing at me. and its. guns thi'eatening. * But I could not fire, for my ordersand my own finer' feelings prevented 'me from i an attack on , the Red Gross." ] That book was circulated widely m i Germany. It was translated and pub- } lished m America. The Freiherr did not £ •expect to be brought up agamst it m i England. He was. The passage quoted above was shown to him by a British, naval officer. ' . - ;.j "Is that true?" he was asked. t , The German shrugged his shoulders. s '"1 did not see it myself. I was told t about it," he aaiswered. . « 1 fi Do you believe it is true?'' he wa^ <i asked. ■■■''.;.. V M % 'T do not believe it to be true," he i replied. • .-..,- i