“ GERMAN ARMY FOUGHT CLEAN ON GALLIPOLI.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18780, 8 June 1929, Page 1

“ GERMAN ARMY FOUGHT CLEAN ON GALLIPOLI.”

HISTORIAN HOPES THAT EMDEN WILL BE GIVEN WELCOME. t United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received June 8, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, June 8. The dilemma of the civic authorities at Auckland over the Emden is discussed by Captain C. E. W. Bean, the official war historian of Australia. Captain Bean says: “If the Emden were to come to Australia, it would be my hope that she would be honourably ieceived. We were pretty suspicious of the German officers at Gallipoli, but I know that throughout that struggle the German army fought a clean campaign. Many a time when our men were taken prisoner by the Turks German officers stepped in and saved them from savagery or more frequently the inefficiency of the Turks.” Captain Bean recalled an unrecorded incident during a recent tour of the battlefields, when he noticed a man in mufti, wearing several decorations and also the Iron Cross, place wreaths on the Anzac Memorial at Lone Pine and Helles, both of which bore fitting inscriptions from the German navy. Captain Bean points out that the re- j ported brutalities of the German armies were vastly over-estimated, and had caused much post-war prejudice.—Australian Press Association.