GERMAN DISCIPLINE.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 3

GERMAN DISCIPLINE.

"A friend of mine who has a small hospital in Lancashire told me that she had among the wounded two Germans,})' writes Lady Randolph Churchill, iri Pearson's Magazine. "One, an oflieer of 00 years of age, with a bullet in his leg, and a young private who, owing to a very severe wound in his head, had to be trepanned. As the accommodation was limited they had to be put in the same room. A few days after the operation a nurse, coining in, found the private up and struggling to put on his clnthes. Horrified, she exclaimed, "What on earth are you doing out of bed?' "The • officer answered for him: 11 wanted a glass of water.' " 'But' exclaimed the nurse, 'lie has had a serious operation and must be kept quiet. This may kill him.' " 'I wanted a glass of water, and I am his superior officer,' was all the colonel would say." Such treatment of r wounded soldier would not be tolerated in the British Army for an instant. Britishers treat wounded soldiers with every consideraton, and the people of Tnranaki arc going to see that our brave lads are well provided for. Do your "bit" by patronising the great Carnival in aid of wounded soliers, on Easter Monday, at Stratford. .