Help please ! Did the BOH equate German conduct in 1914 with Iroq

[phil andrade]

Have you ever felt certain that you've read something, cited it, and then been held to account because you can't authenticate it ?

This has happened to me, and I'm worried that memory hasn't served me.

Did James Edmonds, or another such high ranking British historian or commentator, declare that the way the German army treated British wounded in the Mons campaign was so barbaric as to be redolent of the conduct of the Iroquois in the Indian Wars of the eighteenth century ?

If any of the pals can authenticate such a statement - or something like it - and refer me to the source, this would get me out of a bad place.

Edit : sorry, the title bar does not allow me to install full name of Iroquois.

Phil (PJA)

[phil andrade]

Found it !

Not Edmonds, but Arthur Conan Doyle, the British Campaign in France and Flanders 1914, Chapter III, pages 93-94 .

Alluding to the treatment of prisoners by the Germans, he cites the testimony of a neutral :

" His account reads more like the doings of Iroquois than of a Christian nation."

PHEW...I'm not going mad after all !

Phil (PJA)

[trajan]

Congrats and

[MartH]

I was just going to say not in Edmonds' revised edition Volume I text. Glad you found it,

[paulgranger]

Ha! My eyesight not being the Mae West, I read in the post title 'Iraq', and thought, what, Edmonds could see the future?