MALIGNED TURKS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3988, 22 July 1915, Page 4

MALIGNED TURKS.

q'j jjr ALLFGFD AT ROCITIEB. liv Lieut. Alorncti!, of the Gth Haur■ik:s who lias Just returned to Waihi, U?U> ’.-viewed with regard to alleg-u barbarous treatment oi wounded ac n j )V the T urks, replied ax follows : ‘. j ,j 0 not believe inis to he the cm-e. Although 1. had little or no oppoF unity <ii personal observation, I met at the hospital base various wounded colonial troops, who spoke wII of the treatment received by thoir comrades at the hands of the Turks. One fellow told mo taut a colonial soldier who had advanced too far had his wounds «rwi ov a 'furl' The Turl: leit him, saying. •You* will be fixed- up later by your own. people.' ' On the other hand. Kent. Morpeth rt , luted an incident in _ which (aee-ord-n\,r to information, from a roliame source) a German wearing the- uniform of a British officer apipearod at the end: of one of the tn nche- an ■■ ve an order m English: “Officer-., pass this way,” this not being usual, ■ji reii officers, assuming that twy v.-J-e beino- called out for order*, obeyed the call. They were immediately shot down by the German, v..ho 'afterward:- paid Inc penalty with In.-* life.