"When we shall have won this war the British will no longer be able to force natives of India to fight their battles for them." I judged it well to repeat that word for word.

There are over ten applicants for every vacancy in such a regiment as ours, and until Ranjoor Singh ordered our surrender, we were all free men--free givers of our best; whereas the Germans about us were all conscripts.

The comparison did no harm.
We saw no more of our wounded until some of them were returned to us healed, weeks later; but from them we learned that their treatment had been good.

With us, however, it was not so, in spite of the promise the German officer had made.

We were hustled along a wide trench, and taken over by another guard, not very numerous but brutal, who kicked us without excuse.