Note 55 — V. WHAT THE GERMAN MAY BE. (continued 2)

Further, we must remember that “The Red Cross on a white field is not a magic mantle that can ward off shells fired by an artillerist at a target which he cannot see, nor against flyers dropping bombs from thousands of feet in the air. ‘Bomb-dropping flyers are the terror of the doctors and wounded behind the lines,’ remarked a doctor to me.”—Karl von Wiegand, in the New York World, August 17, 1916. (“Cambridge Magazine,” Oct. 7, 1916.)