WELL WORTH IT.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 May 1918, Page 3

WELL WORTH IT.

"They have a clearing place for German prisoners at ," says an extract from a letter received by a Wellington resident from England, "and they are drafted from there to all parts of the country. Von Tirpitz's son. who was among one draft of pri--1 soners, passed a sentry, and in doing so spat at him. The sentry threw down his rifle and went for him, pummelling and punching him well. Of course he was had up, and given three days' G. 8., not. he was told, because he had struck the German) because he would have been within his rights to bayonet him), but because he had put down his rifle. The sentry told the men who told me the tale that he would have done six days' C.B. for the pleasure it gave him to thrash the German."