PROUDLY DEFIANT PRISONERS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 211, 14 October 1916, Page 6

PROUDLY DEFIANT PRISONERS.

The "war correspondent of the Frankfurter Zeitung sends to his paper an impression of the British soldiers made prisoners after the big battles near Blantauban and Ovilliers. He says — "They want to show Germans the Enlishman who allows himself to be impressed by nothing. -They are by no aneans broken down, but proudly defiant, .like boys who have been caught 'after a good fight. The co-respondent goes on to describe how a British prisoner, on being questioned by a German officer, assumes an attitude of extreme indifference, plainly but courteously permitting his questioner to feel that he would rather do something betten than converse with him. One prisoner on being asked what he thought Germany would claim when she had -won the war, replied, "Germany win? [Never! Quite impossible,." The correspondent mentions particularly the proud attitude of the men of the Yorkshire and Lansashire regiments.