The Chivalrous Turk

Horowhenua Chronicle, 21 September 1915, Page 3

The Chivalrous Turk

FRENCH SERGEANT'S STOItY.

Pi en o Loti, tlie celebrated French author, lias come forth, iu his appeal for public subscriptions for a hospital ship to be sent to the Dardanelles, with tho statement that, unlike llie Germans, the Turks bear no malice once tlio battle bias come to an end. in this respect the French newspapers cite a letter sent by a French, sergeant, who was wounded during one of the combats in Gallipoli. "1 fell, wounded in the leg," lie writes, "near a Turkish officer, who was wounded much more severely than myself. Ho had a tinst aid package | with him, and lie at once ooonmenced to treat my wound without paying any attention to his own bufferings. He spoke excellent French, and said to me, 'You see, my friend, in what position the miserable Germans have placed us.' " It is also being recalled tliat General Gourand, recently returned from tho Dardanelles, where ho commanded' tho Expeditionary Foice, who is now in a Paris hospital from the severe wounds that necessitated tho amputation ol his left arm, declared in an order issued on the battlefield, "Treat the" Turkish wounded well after the 'battle, i They are not our enemies." I