IN A PRISON CAMP
NEW ZEALAND NURSES HELD BY THE JAPANESE News has recently bqpn received of two New Zealand-trained nurses who are prisoners of war in Japanese hands. They arc Miss Violet Bargrove and Mrs Hall (nee Molly McMurray), a graduate of Auckland Hospital. Mrs, Hall is interned in a prison camp in Shanghai with her infant son, and they are both well. Mr Hall is interned in a different camp. A repatriated nurse, Miss Nellie Williams, writing from Canada, gave news to New Zealand friends of- Miss Bargrove,, and information i regarding prison camp conditions. Miss Bargrove was interned in Lunghua "civil" assembly centre, Shanghai, and was in good spirits when she left in September, 1943,, said the writer. There were eight camps in and around Shanghai for civilians, and there were 1700 odd in the camp referred to. Lt was eight miles out of the city, and Miss Bargrove nursed in the camp hospital.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 84, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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