PRISONERS IN TURKEY
RED CROSS ARRANGEMENTS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z, Cablo Association.) mi p, - LONDON, May 5. ine Keel Cross lias arranged to send parcels ot fifteen pounds' weght, fortnightly, to prisoners in Turkey, by nu American express expedition transit across Austria, where past delays havo occurred. Heron t acknowledgments irom. Turkey indicate that parcels arc arriving more satisfactorily, but extremely slowly. t> So ? iet -V topes that the iOOO British prisoners who are coming from .Turkey in connexion with the new exchange agreement, include Australians.' i e . fihip wlucn takes tlio exchanged ' Turkish prisoners from Egypt to Asia i&J £ c^ r 7 A Quantity- of.. - foodstuffs- and clothing for distribution . among the British prisoners, and alsoparcels of clothing for each officer - • In consequence of the Dutch Governments representations officer nrisoners m future will receive 18 lifca. and noncoms. and men tcnlira mratnlj.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16205, 7 May 1918, Page 7
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