A remarkable incident is related by a soldier who has just returned to the Dominion. One day during , a British offensive a large batch of German prisoners was passing through tho colonial lines, and the New Zealanders were watching them curiously. To the surprise of-all one New?Zealauder' stopped-va.-prisoner- and - indignantly' demanded what he was doing there. The German so challenged-replied in* perfect’ -English that it was not his fault, and that he had been visiting Germany when-the war broke out, and had-been conscripted without ceremony and .sent'to the front. He added'that -he did not wish do fight, and had been looking for an -opportunity to surren- ' deE The'" New Zealander ' explained later that the man was a German who ' jj ac t lived in New Zealand for some time before the war, and had worked on the questioner’s farm- in 1313.
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Otaki Mail, 5 March 1919, Page 3
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