GENEROUS GERMANY
WHAT NEW ZEALAND TROOPS FOUND.
What may bo regarded as an interesting sidelight on Germany's treatment of' its Turkish ally is recounted in a letter received from a Wellington trooper who went to Egypt with one of the New Zealand contingents. He says, first of all, that the New Zealanders "treated the Turkish artillery with contempt and derision." The Turks' shells fell a long way. short, and' what were on range dropped harmlessly to the ground and fails*} to burst.
When the New Zealanders crossed the Canal to bury,the dead (a largo number) they found piles of ammunition. ''Naturally they would find plenty of livo shells arid cartridges, but some of these cartridges wore dummies. When I say they wore dummies I mean it, as 1 saw them myself. In some instances they were nothing more than wood cases with a kind of metal bullet. In othor cases they wero composed of brass and bullet with faulty primers." The writer asks what could havo inspired such a suicidal not by Germany. "Their shells were IS-pounders," ho adds, "and no mistake, wero'of German manufacture, having no'othor nanio tjiaa .'Kruua 1 adniecLiitt.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 6
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192GENEROUS GERMANY Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2446, 27 April 1915, Page 6
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