PRISONERS OF WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 157, 3 July 1917, Page 6

PRISONERS OF WAR.

(From Onr Special Correspondent.) LONDON, May 3. The names of ten members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in German hands, and now interned at Dulmen, in Westphalia, have been communicated to the High Commissioner for New Zealand through the Central Prisoners of War Committee, namely:—Lance-Cor-poral Wm. Jas. Byrne < 14/100), Auckland Regiment: Private Win. Geo. Clemo (21213). Auckland Regiment; Private Oscar Featherstone (21230), Auckland. Regiment; Private Norman Wilfred Gribble (18791). Auckland Regiment; Private Bertram Heatley (12/557), Auckland Regiment; Corpora] Wm. Jones (12/2352). Auckland Regiment; Sapper Allan Loekett (4/117U). New Zealand Engineers; Private Fredk. Shaw (21341), Auckland Regiment: Rifleman William Stone (26/212), Third N.Z.R.8.; Rifleman A. Sutherland (20/222), Third N.Z.R.B. The New Zealand Prisoners of War Department, which is under the control of the High Commissioner, the Hon. Sir Tiros. Mackenzie, has recently received intimation that many of the parcels, which have been held up for such a long period, are now reaching their destination, and very grateful letters of acknowledgment are being received. Lord Newton stated in the House of Lords, in reply to a question, that the Government had made proposals to the German Government two days -ago based on the principle that prisoners who had been imprisoned for a lengthy period should be visited and examined, and eventually interned in Switzerland, or some neutral country. There had not yet lieen time for an answer. But he warned the House that even if the offer were accepted it would only lie possible to provide for a limited number of prisoners of this particular class. No reply had yet been received to the Government's proposal to Turkey that GOO incapacitated men should be exchanged at one of the ports in Asia Minor, but the Government had reason to hope that the answer would be favourable.