PRISON CAMPS CLOSED.
GERMANS ACCEDE TO REQUEST. (United P#ess Association—Copyright.) LONDON, July 7. Through the good offices of the United States Embassy in Berlin, Staleg XXA Fort 15, and Staleg XXAD Fort 8 have been closed, and all officers' have been transferred from them to other camps, states a War Office communique. A. number of officers are said to ha\ r e been sent to Oflag VB, and the German Foreign Office lias promised to supply the United States Erbassy in the near future with a formal notification of the closing of the two camps, together with a list of the camps to which the officers have been transferred. On receipt of this information by the British Government the next-of-kin will be notified of the change of address.
The camps closed are so-called reprisal camps to which certain officers were transferred early in March this
year. Questions ivore asked about these calnp.4 in the House of Commons recently. The camps were established after the Germans had alleged that German officers in Canadian camps had been badly treated
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 228, 9 July 1941, Page 3
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