rom Serbia for doctors, I was one of those responding,
and was stationed by the Serbian Government as Medical Officer
of Health for Batochina and district, where I was in residence
at the time of the German invasion in October, and was with my
wounded men when the German army entered northern Serbia, and
saw the whole campaign.

Contrary to all my expectations, the conduct of the German army
was excellent in every respect. The men entered no occupied
house without the permission of the owner, they took nothing
without payment or a requisition paper. Never did I ask a German
soldier in vain for half of his bread for a wounded Serbian
soldier. Generally it was all given to me and I cut the portion
and returned half.

After I had been for some weeks with the German Red Cross
doctors and began to realise how wrong an impression all in
England had concerning our enemies, I decided to ask permission
to go to Germany and see for myself whether equally wrong ideas
existed concerning the treatment of British prisoners in the
detention camps. This permission was accorded me, and I went to
Berlin where I waited a fortnight while the War Office decided
upon the matter. I was then given a long list of camps to choose
from and permitted to go with an officer to inspect and report
upon the same.

In this short letter I can only say that I was justified in my
belief that all was well with our men, and, as a fine Canadian
sergeant at Giessen said to me (whose regiment I had seen march
out of Vancouver a year ago), "If a man behaves himself, he will
have nothing to complain of."

Now, to my sorrow, I am forced to confess that the nations do
not yet incline towards peace, and to my regret I have to state
that Germany's resources at the present drain will last another
four or five years. Also there is no lack of food, and one may
also say of luxuries in the land. The people are united to fight
as long as England wishes to continue in the useless struggle in
which neither can win, for while we hold the sea, they are
equally powerful on land. I can see that this is going to be a
drawn war, but neither nation has yet had enough.

The object of this letter is not to encourage a premature peace
which would be ultimately worse than war, but to plead for a
fairer treatment for our foe.