SHORT WAR STORIES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1911, 5 December 1918, Page 1

SHORT WAR STORIES.

STORY OF AX IRON CROSS. Several German battalion commanders were taken on the Western From on one occasion. One of I hern, who belonged lo the Lancashire hag of prisoners, saw one of his stretch-er-bearers carrying wounded, and asked leave to speak to him. Consent was given, and ho called the man up, and said; “I was going to give you the Iron Cross yesterday for gallant conduct, and now take (his opportunity of presenting it to yon, wi|li my congratulations.” The .stretcher-hearer seemed stupefied by (his decoration on our side of (lie lines.

“HANGMAN” PETERS DEAD. The death of Dr. Karl Peters, (ho African explorer, is announced in the Berlin papers. Peters has won his place in the gallery of infamous immortals by his brutality in German East Africa. As Governor of the colony he won the nickname of “Hangman'' Peters, owing to his severity to the natives. For a long time he found sanctuary in England when Germany was 100 hot for him. His return for the hospitality he received was to urge a policy of destruction. His amiable creed was that England should be “hacked to pieces” by the German airmen; and yet he once spoke of the English as “a nation of statesmen —the greatest since the Romans.”