VISIT OF THE EMDEN
CAPTAIN C. W. BEAN’S COMMENT. Sydney, June 8. The diletainra of the civic authorities at Auckland over -the Emden is disicussed by Captain C. W. Bean, the official war historian of Australia. Captain Bean says: “If the Emden were to come to Australia, it would Ibe my hope that she would be honourably received. We were pretty suspicious of German officers -at Gallipoli, but I know that throughout that struggle the German army fought a clean campaign. Many -a. time when our men were taken prisoner by the Turks, German officei's stepped in and saved (lie|m from the savagery, or, more frequently, the inefficiency of the Turks.” Captain Bean recalled an unrecorded incident during his recent tour of the battlefields, when he noticed a man in mufti wearing several decorations and also the Iron 'Cross place wreaths on the Anzac Memorial at Lone Pine and at Helles, both of Which wreaths bore fitting inscriptions from the German navy. Captain Bean points out that the reported brutalities of the German armies were vastly over-estimated, and had caused much post-war prejudice.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3954, 11 June 1929, Page 3
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183VISIT OF THE EMDEN Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3954, 11 June 1929, Page 3
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