PRISONERS OF WAR IN GERMANY.
NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPERIENCE. (press association telegram.) AUCKLAND, May 16. Eleven months as a prisoner m many was the experience of Private Bert Oxley, of Kingsland, who returned to-day. He was wounded in trench raid near Armentieros, and left in a German trench, suffering from*? eight wounds. Ho was sent io a man hospital in France, whero he re-5 ceived fair treatment. Subsequently * he was sent to Gorpiany, and patriated in January fast, his right"' arm having been permanently injured., While in Germany Private Oxley en? durcd very severe conditions, partimh Jarly in regard to food, aud his weight dropped from 12st to Bst. . , "Things aro certainly very bad •1# Germany," ho said. "I was Pachei, Cologne, Julich, and Mann* hei.m, and was able to sco tho privf" tlons of the people. Tho shop -win l *; dows are always ompty, and people in potato queues often could not bo Hop- - plied. At one prison the ChrigtnlM dinnor was sotip made out of the trails of fish." , '-"^V
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16214, 17 May 1918, Page 6
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