FOOTBALL AND WAR
GERMAN OFFICERS COMPLIMENTARY. Baron von Tauhe, who was camp officer at Ruhleben, says that to him the British character was “a perpetual source of surprise. It amazed him to hoar two football teams cheer each other after their match was .over, on the playing fields.” Baron yon Mutzonbeokor (censor ot correspondence) made this remark at the-dose of a hotly-contested match: "When I sec how you play foptball I quite understand how it was that wo failefl to boat the ‘Contemptible Little Army.' ”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10613, 11 June 1920, Page 7
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85FOOTBALL AND WAR New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10613, 11 June 1920, Page 7
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