GERMAN TREACHERY.
ABUSE OF RED CROSS. THE BOGUS DOCTORS. ! . PARIS, October 15. j When the French entered Amiens the cavalry overtook a Red Cross convoy containing 48 medical officers.. TheFrench General .welcomed the prisoners and promised to send them to Geneva to be exchanged for French doctors. When the convoy was searched arms and ammunition and. a quantity of ex-1 plosives 1 were fouiwl. The German doe-;! tors explained that they carried arms ] for self-protection. The French Gen-! eral 'accepted this explanation, saying, '' Your army has strange customs*.".-,..: That evening French medical officers! entertained the .prisoners, and .conyer-1 sation turned on treatment of, wounds. A French doctor noticed that a mini-,j ber of the Germans .were strangely; silent. He communicated his suspicions to the French General, who ordered, each man to be privately asked, simple questions in medical science. Five passed, the ordeal, but the sixth was utterly, ignorant. Finally a committee of French doctors convicted eleven of misusing the Red Cross, and the men were shot at daybreak.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 216, 16 October 1914, Page 7
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