CARD FROM HUSBAND REPORTED KILLED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 287, 1 September 1941, Page 6

CARD FROM HUSBAND REPORTED KILLED

Experience Of Oamaru

Woman

WRITTEN IN BULGARIAN

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

OAMARU, August 31.

To have received a message from her husband written after he had been officially reported as killed in action is the extraordinary 'experience of Mrs. M. E. Mulhern, Oamaru, for, although the message is written in a foreign language, the translation reveals that Sergeant Michael Edwin Mulhern is wounded and in a German hospital. Sergeant Mulhern went overseas with the second echelon and was officially reported as killed in action on April 17 in the campaign in Greece.

A few days ago Mrs. Mulhern received a postcard bearing the imprint of a German rubber stamp as posted on June 7, her name and address being written on one sidq and her husband’s name signed on the other in handwriting which she feels certain is her husband’s. ~ The message is written in Bulgarian and was sent to Otago University for translation, the text reading: “I am wounded. I stay in a German hospital and'am comfortable. Soon I shall be transferred to another camp from which I shall ■ write to you. Then I shall be permitted to send mail to you and you will be permitted to write to me. Michael Mulhern.”