COLD-BLOOD TREACHERY
AN INCIDENT IN SOUTH AFRICA. For cold-blooded! cafculated treachery, the following incident, which is told in a letter to Mr. D. 11. Yeats, of Grant Road, Wellington, from his sister in South Africa—two of her sons were with Dotlha in his victorious ;campaign against the Germans—stands out:— ' "One of our men, Colonel de Meilton, was wounded and taken prisoner by the Germans, 1 in whose hands ,he eventually died. A message was sent by the Germans to tell our men of his death, saying that as he was so brave an enemy they had buried him with all honour. Xliey hoped that when our men passed that way they would visit his grave and see how the Germans respect a gallant foe. ' "Shortly after our men did go to the grave as they were marching past, but it was a fortunate thing that they were very cautious in approaching it, as it had from three to four hundred mines laid all round it. Only one man was billed 1 , and tho mines were taken up and destroyed l —German kultur!! !"•
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 3
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182COLD-BLOOD TREACHERY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 3
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