POLITE GERMANY.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 448, 16 November 1916, Page 3

POLITE GERMANY.

Ann im the oiFim-rs n-'-mitly arrived in England Fr.an Hi" S-minm ! atticfioLL .Captain 11 - - 1.-ld llm folio wing story;— "German morale? Well. I don't know, j Imiv’s a captain of Hm S --’s 'aboard Hits sjliip. who lohl me a, thing that hap: je'ti'd to him aluiigside us at Ho/Jcias. He wa,s werking along a cotunvunicat ion trench with a party of boinbcrs, when Im. nm! a regular procession of lirclms. all bolding the.ir hands well ,np, and led by ouo who ca.rri.e-d an e. nornn.iis cigar l*ox over bis bead. "The English olliecr suspoclcj some son of Foul play, of course. Thu Roches have played so, many dirty tricks. Rut. the fVllow whipped open the big- box, amt showed it bad nothing' in il but cigars, and explained a.s well as hoi could that m was by way of being 1 a sort of propi iia lory oUVring, yon- know. "He wound upt by saying: ‘This war no good; no good ,a.l all, sir. Piccadilly again soon, now, sir!’ 01 course, they’re foil up : ; but. tihfiy’ve. got a big 'machine behind Tin yctT