PRISONERS OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 124, 21 February 1944, Page 6

PRISONERS OF WAR

Reports dated the end of November from Stalag XVIII A and frqm Stalag VIII A toward the end of December indicate that the clothing needs of prisoners of Avar from New Zealand have been met by the arrival of large consignments from Geneva, according to information received from London by the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office. During October 2000 books Avere dispatched to Geneva for the reserve and 1500 were sent direct’to prisoner of war camps. The indoor recreation centre of the British Joint Council Organization sent 692 parcels of music and games. Up to that date the recreations section had supplied 121,000 books to the camps, and 53,000 to the reserve at Geneva. Between January and October, 1943, 14,000 parcels of music and games were dispatched to prisoner of war canids. The number of parcels packed at the packing centres of the Prisoners of War Department in London during’the last ttvo weeks of October was more than a quarter of « million. Of this total, 164,000 were food parcels. 13,000 tobacco, 38,000 medical, and 11,000 next-of-kin parcels.