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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLVI, Issue 18, 1 May 1919, Page 43

Mr. Philip Gibbs, the well-known war correspondent, lecturing in London, said that a number of wounded Catholic soldiers -were lying on the field calling. for water, but any man trying to give it to them was instantly shot. A priest volunteered, and the Germans^ lowered their : rifles. After the next attack a colonel saw one of his men leading back an emaciated German ■ draught horse. “ What are you doing with that beast • he. cried out. “It’s not a beast,” was the answer;; “it’s a charger for Father Malone.”.