IN GOOD SPIRITS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 4

IN GOOD SPIRITS

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The morale of prisoners of Italy was splendid and a grettjjtein maintaining it was the rectjp* letters from home, said LieutnMl Colonel A. A. Tennent, of tht Hi* Zealand Medical Corps, in a MtH broadcast last night. He was repatriated from Italy. 'HPr It was felt, he said, that.~-Ijff Italians were doing their best w: observe the international convtntWl for the care of prisoners, aqd wpf circulated copies of the conv&tiM among the prisoners. • <sßjgi Warm clothes were certainly required for prisoners in lU$, during the winter, as there was«{j little wool in that country,. Lieutenant-Colonel Tennent. don't forget, also, a pair of shMte for the summer months." ~' T M

The speaker said that books - available in limited quantity; ap prisoners generally preferred tife more serious type of book, becaiiify they had plenty of time for refletfk®. Of the prisoners on Crete, tenant-Colonel Tennent said he Wlf found them in great spirits. ; added that the Germans had gOMtp:some trouble to look after the gravis of the fallen and had actually effMSf a beautiful memorial to the mtnoK| both nations who had lost their-li** ; during the battle of Crete.