Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-11-19 | Page 8 | Germans Place Wreath on Briton's Casket

I GERr ANS PLACE WREATH VREA TH THON ON FIN BRITONS BRITON'S CASKET BERLIN BEHLIN Nov 19 Tre Tre of Crefeld has been placed d dunder under the he so called so preventive censorship cen cen- meanie that it must submit submit submit sub sub- mit its proofs to the censor for censor for printing a communication from a a. areader areader reader protesting against the action of the Red fled Cross in buying a wreath for the coffin o of ox an English major by n name me who had committed committed committed com com- suicide in war captivity The commanding general of the district in communicating his order to the paper wrote in part Major had a severe I wound in the spine He feared complete complete complete com- com j paralysis and became melan melan- melani i choly In a fit of melancholy as has I Ib b been en established by physicians physician he I took his own life Nicholson was an I officer commanding high respect I Iwho who bore his captivity with with dignity He had made himself beloved among the officers in captivity by his lovable lovable lovable lov lov- able nature and had won the respect of the German officers placed over him through his always correct conduct con con- duct The general says Nicholson even i l left tt a note stating that his suicide had nothing to do with his treatment In order that his Isis coffin might not lack every very decoration a wreath was II bought for four marks by the Red RedCross RedCross RedCross Cross physician since no other funds I Wf were re available