GERMAN TREACHERY.
DISGUISED AS_ DOCTORS. Paris, Oct. 15, When the French entered Amiens the cavalry overtook a Red Cross convoy with forty-eight medical officers. The General welcomed the prisoners, and promised to send them to Geneva to be exchanged for French medical official officers. When the convoy was searched, arms and ammunition and a quantity of explosives were found, and the Red Cross men explained that they carried N arms for self protection. The French General accepted the explanation, saying, “Your army has strange customs.” That evening the French medical officers entertained the prisoners and the conversation turned on the treatment of wounds. The French doctors noticed that a number of the Germans were strangely silent, and communicated their suspicions to the French General, who ordered each to be privately asked some simple questions on medical science. Five passed the ordeal, but the sixth was utterly ignorant. Finally a committee of French doctors convicted eleven of misusing the Red Cross. They were shot at daybreak.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1312, 17 October 1914, Page 3
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165GERMAN TREACHERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1312, 17 October 1914, Page 3
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