UPLIFTING THE BOCHE.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13245, 29 July 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

UPLIFTING THE BOCHE.

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I ilirnsl forward hoforo tlio camera; tlif 1 'others straijjlitrnofl themselves* and I Inuirhed liki> hnv-. Even the M-nhic-smiled. Somehow, tliosn prisonovs seemed different from tlio ordinary captive Boehe. I'liey wore noi uueulont, liko the winaro-headed Prussians, nor sullenly savage liko rlie Bavarians. BritisJn onlookers realised iho contrast as they

studied tlio rows of fair-haired, blue(■ved men standing at attention, lookinp; very fit and soldierly, de.spite their bedraggled uniforms.

"They seem quite human," *aid one soldier thonghtfullv. "I wonder why thev're so different." Northern Seblo>wig-Holstein was once n part of Denmark. Prnssian rule has not yet brought its inhabitants down to the plane of "Kultur" which is the standard of Prussian civilisation. Perhaps that is one reason.

They were led and washed and given medical comforts. They slept in a drv, clean building. They wero allowed to keep their personal trinkets and souvenirs—this astonished them more than anything else —and the photoernnhs of their wives and sweethearts, wlv>h thev had thought contraband, of war, aeeoHing to their own custom, were gravely returned to the owners. All these strapy* l , oxpetfenoefii *st«unded/ tjicau Tiwj? afcUl «sf-r forod from the shock of the «*pfasiapt j