PHILIP GIBBS’ ACCOUNT.
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fantastic tales.
LONDON, July 29. Mr Phillip Gibs writes: —The English, Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders are sharing in the raids, with a view to discovering the enemy dispositions and damaging'lines . We are taking numerous prisoners. We find that the Germans‘are being doped with the stories of the brutal way in which the British treat prison era. Even the Germans with normal intelligence believe the fantastic allegations, ns for example the New Zealanders brought prisoners from a-raid and were amazed at- the terror, of -the Germans, which only disappeared when, they were well fed and kindly treated as is the invariable custom. The Germans then confessed that their officers had said that the New Zealanders were cannibals, who first offered cigarettes and then ate the prisoners. The New Zealanders noticed that tho Germans refused the cigarettes. The New Zealanders hugely enjoyed the joke at the expense of their reputation though they were staggered by the credulity of the Gormans ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 July 1918, Page 2
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