The Archive · 1915

Cupid and the War

German Red Cross Indies are falling in love, says the Copen: hagen correspondent of the "Daily News" with good-looking Britons and Frenchmen lying at the military hospitals in Germany. German generals, accordingly, i a terrible state of mind. One of them, General von Lochow, com: mander of the garrison at Disdenhoten has issued an impassioned tirade against what he declares is nothing less than "dragging the table work of the Red Cro is he says, that German nurse should so neglect their duties as to dare to fall in love with their hostile patients, "even speaking of them as their fiances." As deterrent to human weaknesses he tion of the Secretary of State for War for distinguished service to captains, commissioned officers of has gone so far as to name, publicly, three of the nurses who have fallen victims to the good a lower grade and warrant officers in th" British Army and the Indian or Colonial Military Forces. Foreign officers of—equivalent rank, who have been associated looks of the enemy. However. Cupid has never lost a war sines the world began and can br trusted to make light of even German, general's ultimatums

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