OUR VICTORIES AT RUHLEBEN.
"They told me when 1 came here,'* sa d one of the (iernian soldiers, "that the English were pig-dogs; but I have found out that tins is not so. I have found out that the English are gentlemen." That is one of the incidents (says Mr. Francis Gribble in the "Standard' - ) on which the historian of the future may base the statement that, in a certain moral and purely pacific sense. England conquered Germany at "Ruhlohen. What impressed the German soldiers most was. I think., the fact that when one of the noncotnmifsioned officers who had hecif considerate in his dealings with prisoners. volunteered for the front, the men in hi-, barrack, instead of expressing the wish that he might soon meet hx fate, turned out and gave him three British cheers. The Germans are not by nature sportsmen ; but that unexpected revelation of British sportsmanship evidently made some of them wish that they were.
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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159OUR VICTORIES AT RUHLEBEN. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 156, 17 March 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)
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