EXTRA PARCELS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 234, 3 October 1942, Page 6

EXTRA PARCELS

PRISONERS OF WAR NEW CAMPS FOR N.C.O.'S (P.A.) WELLINGTON, this day. Cabled advice has been received by the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office Headquarters at Wellington that parcels for servicemen interned by the Vichv Government need no longer be sent to the Foreign Relations Department of the Hritish Red Cross, London, but can go forward in exactly the same way as parcels for prisoners in enemy countries. Cards from prisoners acknowledging parcels arrived this week from Sla lags VR, XIIIC. IVA, XV 111 A, IXC. MVIIID, and Of lag A/H. Most were received in July. One left New Zealand as recently as March. All personal parcels posted recently by next of kin have been censored, and have left New Zealand. Latest information shows that food and tobacco parcels are going forward regularly from Geneva to Germany and Italy. At the request of the Italian Fled Cross, .'SOOO extra food parcels each for camps 75 and S.">. and ."iOOO extra parcels for camp HO have been dispatched from i Geneva. A letter written on July 27 from Stalag XVI lIP. which is a new camp by a prisoner transferred from XVIIIA. says that the accom-| modatlon is belter than at the previous camp. The new camp is an N.('.(). camp, and the writer says that most of the N.' O.'s captured m <h cere aie there, or soon will be, and the whole camp is clean and well run. The men do no work except camp fatigues, which are vci v lew. and nave plenty of time tor sport and study. Prisoners notified now total G578, and foili 111io|iieiaI.