SALUTES FOR HUNS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 237, 22 December 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SALUTES FOR HUNS.

ORDER TO GUARDS OF WOUNDED OFFICERS.

Indignation is expressed at the fact that Brit«;h Volunteers who are guardin ing Hun officers are expected to salute their prisoners. A resident of Goodmayes, Essex, writes: —"Men of this district are on duty at the Homerton Hospital guarding wounded German officers, and our men have instructions to salute tho Huns. Who is responsible for this humiliating order to men of th> V.T.C. who are giving up their time for the good of tho country?" A non-commissioned officer of the Essex Volunteers stated recently: "We obey orders. The German officers are saluted as they pass in and out of the room; I am told it was tho practice of the R.A.M.C., who previously guarded them to salute them." A BRITISH GENERAL'S VIEW. Major-General Sir Alfred Turner told a "Daily Mail" representative that he was surprised at the order. "In any other case," he said, "it would lie different, for, although there are no regulations that I have ever hoard of on the matter, it would be a simple act of chivalry to salutd an officer prisoner. But when we remember all the outrages committed by the German Army, and that those outrages were ordered by the officers, that act of chivalry might be withheld. One thing is quite certain: German guards will not salute our officers who may be prisoners in their hands."