GERMAN METHODS
Sne,—Your correspondent, Graham Watson, will cause much fluttering in the dovecots of the popular majority who think we should not dwell on the bestial horrors perpetrated by the Germans. This sombre setting forth of facts reminds me of a story told me last year by a naval com- mander who has been at sea for most of the war. He said:
" When you hear talk of the good German, fbr the sake of my comrades, your countrymen, will you also remember that we are constantly facing one of the most barbaric practices that the mind of man could conceive? The Germans on rescuing our men from drowning very often tie four or five of them to a boat and booby trap them. Should we be fortunate enough to encounter one of these craft before the men are dead, to save
them without blowing up rescuers and rescued is not an easy job. I have seen attempts that have failed."
Today's papers publish a photograph of a German family near Aachen having its meal supplemented by Allied rations (for so the caption runs). I question the 'value of such a photograph. It is hard to reconcile it with the picture of our sailors stripped and starved awaiting the slow advent of death or, if located, the possible sudden explosion.—Yours
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