PRISONER IN POLAND

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 197, 17 May 1941, Page 12

PRISONER IN POLAND

Seaman From Hawke’s Bay

ENGAGED ON ROAD WORK Dominion Special Service.

NAPIER, May 16.

Forwarded through the international organization for the aid of prisoners of war, a letter has been received in Gis borne from Richard Foxley. youngest son of Mr. P. Foxley, Matawai, who was taken prisoner from a Finnish sailing vessel in the Atlantic last year. Tbe writer, who is now 17 years old, signed on with a firm operating large grain-carrying sailing ships between Australia and Britain. Foxley joined one of”the company’s vessels at a South Australian port early in 1939, and made one voyage home via Cape Horn. Later the ship was sent to the River Plate, whefte it took a cargo before setting out fur the Azores. For three months nothing was heard of the vessel, aud finally news was received that the ship had been sunk by a German raider and that the’ complement was taken to a French port and made prisoners of war.

The latest advice received from Foxley is that lie is iu a prison camp in Poland and is engaged chiefly in road work. He writes cheerfully, though with chagrin at being held prisoner, and expresses more concern for his two brothers than for himself. One brother is serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Middle East and the otlier is awaiting it call for service with the Fleet Air Arm. Mr. P. Foxley, father of the young prisoner of war, is serving in a New Zealand mobilization camp as a commissioned instructor.