Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 98, 28 April 1915, Page 6

Great Britain

GERMAN MILITARY HONOR. CHARACTER INDELIBLY STAINED. United Puebi AsißooiATioN. (Received 1.35 p.m.) London, April 27. Lord Kitchener, continuing, said: Some of the officers were lately subjected to solitary confinement in retaliation for the supposed, treatment of Germans, and this, country hoped shortly to receive evidence on the point. Germany for many years po?o i to the civilised world as. a great military nation. She had abundantly proved her skill and coijrage, and surely should, set the standard of military honor, which would gain her the respect, if not the friendship, of nations; instead, slip (Stooped to acts which were an indelible stain on her military history,, vieing in barbarous savagery with the Soudan dervishes. He did not think there could be a sqldier of any nationality, even amongst the Germans themselves, who was not * heartily ashamed of the slur cast upon the profession of arms. The. usages of. war had not only been outraged by cruelties, but Germany had introduced methods placing their opponents hors de combat by asphyxiating gases, when-" "according to the wise have failed.. Germany had signed an article in the Hague Convention prohibiting such methods.