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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXI, Issue 16604, 27 April 1916, Page 2

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There is also a sworn statement by Stretcher-bearer Lance-Corporai Bischoff saying that he was called to a wounded Bavarian in a trench at Aubers: He told -us that he had lain five days and five nights in front of the English position. By daylight he feigned death. He saw Englishmen kill our wounded. He further noticed that they had tied a wounded acting lieutenant to a tree; the man signalled with his handkerchief, whereupon one of our officers and* some men tried to release him. They came up to within four yards of the man, but were then compelled to return by English machinegun fire. CRUSHING REPLY. The reply to this amazing attempt by the ravishers of Louvain ..to discredit the British Army is crushing. General Sir William Robertson, Chief of Staff to Sir Douglas Haig, produces this proof: 1. —The Germans say the man' was tied to a tree.' ANSWER: There were "no trees in that part of the line to which a man could be tied. 2.—The Germans mention Indians. ANSWER: There were no Indians. 3. —The Germans speak of what they "saw." ANSWER: Our lines were too far away for them to. see any occurrence in detail (see later: the distance was over 500 yarols.) FATUOUS STORY. After the facts, the probabilities. Sir W. Robertson says in effect: The officer is- said1 to have said that he lay •in the open nve days and Jive nights. Unable to move all that time and' without food, whence came the strength to crawl back to the German trendies at the end of that' time —a distance of 500 yards at the closest point ? What was the- possibility of, so crawling across 50(T" ya"rds ot . open ground? And finally, what -wovtJd be the mental state of a man after such a.n experience ? Ther are other discrepancies. The officer says he .escaped being killed by feigning death. But the witness Weidmann cays the officer had' a rope tied to his leg by the English to prevent his return to Iris own lines. Moreover, the officer is' stated to have said that a German officer and some men attempted to release him when he wns tied to the tree but could not because of the British fire. But they approached within speaking distance and learned that the .officer was from Wurzburg. Where is the testimony of the officer and the men who performed this teat? Anc' where is the testimony ot the wounded officer himself ? THERE ARE NO TREES. Sir William Robertson closes with a contemptuous reference to x nn accusation "on so flimsy a basis. Accompanying his reply 5s a statement by Captain and Adjutant R. C. Chichester Constable, the Jl<ne Brigade, ?.t whose lines, as he says plainly, the atrocity took place if at all. He it is who reports to Sir William' Robertson : i That here are no"trees; that the enemy's line "was separated from ours by some 500 yards of absolutely open ground." He describes how the only prisoners taken" at that time were cared for with t he con sideration that is a tradition of the British Army . CHEAP BAVARIAN LIVES.' It is possible that in the report of Lieutenant-Colonel C. A. Anoerson, Commanding Indian Corps, Berlin may find the explanation that it seeks: The nearest Indian troops were fully' 3000 yards south of the trenches opposite Aubers. "The absurdity -of ' a badly wounded man crawling 3,000 yards is too apparent to be worth discussing," says Colonel Anderson. B*ut this is not the point that will interest ..Berlin. What Berlin will be concerned about is: That when wounded Bavarians cry "Comraae, help me!" Prussians make no attempt at rescue, and even fire at British officers i when at night they go out to bring in these wounded. This is on record on the testimony of Major Dopin-Hepenstal, Captain Sani ders, Captain Nosworthy, and men of the 1-lst Gurkhas, who themselves res- , cued several, wounded Bavarians of th© 16th and 20th' Bavarian Reserve Regiments "at considerable risk 1.0 themselves." Two of these men were actually lying: nearer the -German than the | British trenches. Other rescues are spoken of my Colonel Anderson, who' says: " Two Bavarians spoke bitterly of. the way in which they had been deserteu by ,the Prussians.?' It would appear, therefore, that the, concern of Berlin for the Bay- • -Brians'is not ; shared'by' Prussians at the front, a matter which obviously calls For inquiry^-at Berlin. IiCONEY LENT PRIVATELY and in •"■*• Strictest upon - Approved Note, of Hand. Also upon HousteKoW. Furniture, - Kanos;" (without rerooVal). No Legal Expenses. Repayable by Easy Weekly Instalments; En: dose stamp for-reply ?tb L\ W^'BAL*BFP» *?•">ptoa*©*tr 4£g&it, Bidgway Street. 'Phone \ll3B.