ENEMY COUSINS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2632, 30 November 1915, Page 11

ENEMY COUSINS

A' wounded English officer tells the following incident which occurred after the capture of the villago of Loos by the British troops:—

"I had picked my way among heaps of German corpses, when I was arrested by a voice which seemed familiar. A few. yards'to my right I observed ono of our Red Gross doctors dressing the wounds of a German officer. 'Bad case, doctor?' I remarked casually; and immediately his patient shouted: 'Hello, Willie!' I approached the wounded man, and to my astonishment, found he was a Gernmn cousin of mine. My German friend did not conceal his emotion, and I, too,- was much affected by a< t meeting in such circumstances. 'You'll'look af-. ter him well?' I said to the Red Cross man, and, bending down, I bade adieu to my German cousin. "A few days after my arrival in London I received a letter from him. It was an unstinted tribute to the valour of the British troops in our great attack, and to their traditional sense of humanity. Of our soldiers he wrote in chivalrous terms: 'Your men are not only soldiers, they are gentlemen, every inch of them.' "