PROUDLY DEFIANT PRISONERS.
Tin l war correspondent, of the •“.Frank!itrler Zeiluug’ semis lo his paper an impression of the British soldiers made prisoners after (he big' battles near .Montaubau and (drillers. lie says: —They want to show Germans the Englishman who allows himself to be impressed by nothing. They are by no means broken down, bul proudly delimit, like boys who have been caught after a good light. The correspondent goes on to describe how an English prisoner, on being questioned by a German ollieer, assumes an attitude of extreme indifference, plainly but courteously permitting his questioner to feel that he would rather do something better than converse with him. One prisoner, on being asked what he thought Germany would claim when .she had won the Avar, replied, “Germany win ! Never! Quite impossible.” The correspondent mentions particularly the proud attitude of men of the Yorkshire and Lancashire regiments.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1619, 3 October 1916, Page 2
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148PROUDLY DEFIANT PRISONERS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1619, 3 October 1916, Page 2
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