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[N0606 ws thi.3 CONVItt does net necessarily prreituie subsequent review.] Englishman, Kamerad I By Captain Gilbert Nobbs. (W. Heine- mann. 3s. 6d. net.)—Captain Nobbs was wounded, blinded, and left for dead in an attack at Leuze Wood on the Somme front in Sept- ember, 1916, and, after lying for three days in a:shell-hole, was picked up by the enemy and sent as a prisoner to Hanover and then to Osnabruck till his release. His account of his military experiences and of his captivity is remarkably vivid and cheerful. "I do not deplore the loss of my sight," he deelares, "for I can say in all sincerity that I was never happier in my life than I am to-day." He says that he had no complaint to make against his gaolers, but the stories of some Mons prisoners whom he met confirm the worst reports of the brutality with which our men were treated in the first winter of the war. He attributes the improvement in the prisoners' condition to the gradual exhaustion of the German pro- fessional army. Her new civilian levies, he says, are less inhuman.
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