NEW ZEALAND PRISONERS.
IX TiIJKISH HAXpS. A? ENQriUIIo AnKED TOR. >j" (Sm-lAL TO "THK THISS. ,, ) WELLINGTON. July.22.- ', A question was put by Mr C. J, Pawto the Minister of Ilefe&ce Uhe HoaJ .iames AU.ru) in tho House to-day sg whether the Government had takes stops to ascertain tho names of New Zealand prisoners in the haiids of Turks at Constantinople. It would be" a groat relief, Mr Parr said, to *ha parents of those soldiers designated «a "missing" if they knew whother the iiU'n were prisoners or not. Mr Allen said that the Government had taken every step iliey could. Taev had telegraphed to tho "Army Coundl, :'nd lie thought his Excellency tho Gotornor had telegraphed to the* Sceretaiy • of St;su.\ Tho latest information to hand was ,that under the intornatiooai law a bureau Imd been set up at Con. stantinopU>, under the administratkmof the United States. So far, tho NewZealand Government had only received, • information of one prisoner in ConRtnnttnoplo. Thfy had asked timo and again for particulars, and he presumed - they would get information in due c course.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15338, 23 July 1915, Page 8
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