OCR Text |
Show GERMANS ARE TOLD NEW ZEALANDERS ARE CANNIBALS WTTH TUB BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE. July 2S. (By the Associated Press.) Continued rain has turned the Flanders front at many places into an almost impassable mire, while all other parts of the front are wet and soggy. Some part a are unfavorable for launching launch-ing an assault against the British lines, even if the enemy should have some such plan In mind. Large quantities of gas have been projected against various sections of the German lines, which have also been shelled freely, and. according to prisoners, the enemy units are losing strength little by little. So far as the German soldiers themselves them-selves are concerned, they seem perfectly satisfied to push matters, for their officers of-ficers have been telling them extraordinary extraordi-nary tales in order to make them fight instead of submitting to capture. Prisoners Pris-oners say they were warned the New Zealanders were . opposite and that on no account should they allow themselves to be taken alive,' as the New Zea landers were cannibals. They were told that they would be offered cigarettes, and en ten directly after. All the prisoners, much to the astonishment of their captors, firmly declined to accept cigarettes. |