CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 206, 1 September 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS

PRISONERS OF WAR

(To the Editor)

I am the mother of a prisons r,* ,war. lam concerned at the paucitv I°[.nd°°w Uh Y' C arC aU °K to send to our unfortunate prisoner >."-V "? , ( '\ eCrr a 'icrmam- Th i . t!,al Au.-traha is treating he prisoner sons much more general | over t lie contents, a, well as ntffi lof pan e,-, make- lis wonder why our |Nf-v. Zca j<in<J Anzac prisoner "bov>;rr- bring penalised in such a rn=V, ! it Is punlishcd an artic!; which ch4" information about sending lettersann I parcels to prisoners of war. ItS ail almo.-t direct contradiction of our New Zealand rules and reguSioS regarding articles allowed to be to prisoners. For instance, paroek ;v.v.ch arc not limited at ail mav contain, among other things' perishable foods in tins, cigarette; tobacco, manor games, playing and books a non-political nature although tnese are advised to be packed in separate parcels 'take note aoout t.ie separate parcels!, while \ve are toUl we must not send any of these commodities, even in our one and only next-of-kin three-monthlv paiccl. Why should we send our comparatively paltry nutter ly parcels pa-t the Midd'e Ea.-t to New Zealand Housr Eondon. to be forwarded through (irneva to our bovs in (tcrmany «iniJ (*r<wc. while liie Cairo base, which is so much nearer to New Zealand, forwards them tnrough Ankara. Turkey, and overland to these camps. L. HOOD.