cities have proved a great all? The furniture vans
success. These vans, are used for purposes of
moreover, all bear the sign concealment, and because
of the Red Cross, and may the very large ambulance
easily be recognised as supply always on duty at
hospital vehicles. the great military
hospitals at Potsdam was
unequal to the task. I saw
no Red Cross indications.
7. That men who are My statement is that all seriously wounded should the German wounded at give one an impression of the present stage of the weariness goes without war, lightly or otherwise, saying. Lightly wounded compare badly with the men who travel from the English and French Somme to Boulogne may wounded, whom I have make a better appearance seen. They are utterly than the seriously wounded war weary and suffering who have made the long not so much from shell journey from the West shock as from surprise front to Potsdam. shock, the revelation of the
creation of a British
Army that had never
occurred to the German
soldiers.
8. As to the great “Hush! I have made inquiries hush! machinery”—what is of British officials, and one to call the attempt they tell me that it is to keep the truth from absolutely untrue that the neutrals by closing channel is closed to English harbours near the neutral shipping when the Channel to neutral shipping English hospital transports for whole days at a proceed to England. time—during which the This untruth is on a par English ship-transports of with the others. wounded proceed to England?
9. The figures published
An interesting revelation
by the Ministry of War as to
German casualty lists.
concerning the numbers of It is
stated by this head
men dismissed from lazarets medical
officer of Potsdam
(hospitals) are based upon that
these lists are drawn up
unquestionable statistics. from
the men dismissed from
These statistics remain as lazarets
(hospitals), that is
given—despite all the
to say, this doctor admits
aspersions of our enemies. that
the custom is now to
keep
back the casualty lists
until
the man is discharged,
whereas
your British lists, I
am
informed on authority, are
published
as speedily as