ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR
Agricultural Work In
Britain
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 29, S.lO p.m.) RUGBY, August 28.
A start has been made with the employment of Italian war prisoners to help British agriculture. The “Daily Telegraph” says the men are not being allotted individually to farms but are working in gangs under military supervision, some on draining, ditching and land reclamation and others ott the harvest. They underwent rigorous tests for previous agricultural experience and physical fitness before being embarked for those shores, and already have made a most favourable impression on those who have seen them at work in the fields. The total number in this country is only about 2000, but further contingents are believed to be on the way. There can be no doubt that the scores of thousands of Italians now idling away tbeir time in prison camps in India represent a valuable reservoir of manpower to eradicate the shortage of domestic farm labour. The only limiting factors would seem to be security and shipping space, of which the former is probably the main reason for the reluctance to use. prisoners hitherto.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 10
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