ALLIED PRISONERS
Contact Made With New Camp! In Austria REPATRIATION OP FRENCH Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, May 14. Supreme Headquarters reports that contact officers have arrived ax Stalag 18C at St. Johann, in Austria, where 6347 British Commonwealth prisoners have been found. Next-of-j kin are being informed as soon as the names are received.
Approximately 540,000 French prisoners of war and_deportees have so far returned to .trance, says a Paris message. There are 1,890,000 still in Germany. Repatriation centres on the frontier are equipped to handle 45,000 persons for repatriation daily.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 113, 15 May 1945, Page 5
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