VIOLATION OF THE RED CROSS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14538, 16 October 1917, Page 5

VIOLATION OF THE RED CROSS.

STRETCHER-BEARERS DELIBER-

ATELY ,SNIPED.

-BRITISH OFFICER'S PROTEST

( i:The Times.")

(Received Oct. 15, 8.40 ,p.m.) London, Oct. ,14.

Mr Perry Robinson, in again 'confirming the recent German violations of the Red Cross, Kays that'.iftVgpm© units the proportion of casualties among stretcher-bearers exceeds tho.se of the infantry as the result of deliberate sniping. Two days ago three out of four members of a stretcherbearer party were sniped at , close range and shot dead. A British officer in a shell, hole nearby, seeing the shooting, seized a Red Cross nag, and -waving it conspicuously, marched .straight to the snipers' hiding place, and halted a few yards from the German position. The * Germans, presumably curious, withheld their fire. Speaking in German, the officer poured out his indignation, pointing out that German stiretcher-bearers were moving un-

molested. _\ The Germans listened in silence,

and when the officer had finished he turned hi 3 back, tossed away the flag, and floundered back into his shell hole. . .