The correspondent of the London Times says : — " War has its ridiculpua aspects as well as its solemn ones. Gom\ng back from the front, the correspondent of the Scotsman at Metz saw, what seemed a terrible group of wounded men, bandaged in all directions, and it made, he says, my blood boil to see them laid down in the wet, while photographers grouped their stretchers with a view to reducing them to the scale of cartes de visite. Judge of my amazement, when the picture was taken, to find the men rise up, discard their sham splints and bandages^ and dance round their crutches, in anticipation of the drink- money the photographers had promised them to make up this miserable sham."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 54, 4 March 1871, Page 2
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