A DISGRACEFUL SCANDAL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 223, 3 November 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

A DISGRACEFUL SCANDAL.

NO THOUGHT FOR OUR WOUNDED: GERMANS FIRST.

Following the Jutland na al battle, says "John Bull", camo astounding talcs <*' the ••most favoured nation' treatment meted out to wounded Germans who fell into our hands, it hcing stated that our own poor follows in hospital were turned out of their bods to make room for the Huns. Bearing in mind tins incident—an incident which could have occurred in no ether country in the world—we wire livt so surprised as we might have been upon hearing tli.it strangely unequal treatment, was accorded by our authorities to the incapacitated Gorman prisoners H.'iii back to the r own country, as compared with that oi our own woundad men whom we received from the enemy in exenaugc. The Germans were de% patched all the way from hospital camps to the ship in motor ambulances, so that they should not suffer the leas*. preventable jar. They were plump and happy, utter months of pampering at the expense of the Brit'sh taxpayer. Our own unfortunate fellows—th'rtymx in number —are described to us l»v an eye-witness a< "mere chunks of humanity- living clay," the vital spark almost extingu s'ueil after long-contin-ued suffering and barbarity, in t!v» worst of environment. For tl.eso ruins <i| what once were men it had not bee.i thought necessary to provide even * hospital trail— the ordinary third-class carriages could suffice. Indeed, five o r them, on stretchers, had actually to Iks crowded into the guard's van! Who ; s responsible for this disgraceful scandal? Is it ihat "Hidden H::nu'" a; an?