PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 98, 25 April 1917, Page 8

PRISONERS OF WAR

WORK OF THE DEPARTMENT

NEWS OF NEW ZEALANDERS.

(PROM ODIt OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LONDON", 13th February. Persons having relatives in the hands of the enemy were at first somewhat anxious on hearing that they -would no longer be under the care of the American Ambassadors who had. done so much to ameliorate their condition, especially in Germany and Turkey. The announcement that Holland is to take over this duty is, however, satisfactory. The Central Prisoners of War Committee is not modifying its operations' at all, and there is ground for assuming that the-relief work will not be seriously interfered with. NEWS FROM PRISONERS. The New Zealand Prisoners of War I Department of the High Commissioner'a Office informs me that 14441 Pte; Robert Lawrence, Hauraki Company, Ist Auckland Infantry, was recently reported to be wounded and a prisoner of war in German hands. It is now established that he died -on 10th December at the j St. Clotilde Hospital at Douai, and was buried there ■ No. ■ 24083 Pte. Jack Thomson, Hanraki Company, ,2nd Auckland Infantry, died in a German field hospital on 3rd November, and was buried in Haubourdin Cemetery. Communications have been received lately from the following prisoners in Turkey: 13/2414 -Tpr.- C. C. Bowon, A.M.R.; 10/5641 Pte. J. P. Havard 1, Wellington Infantry; _ 10/447 Sergt. George M'Aneny/- Wellington Infantry; ' 12644 Tpr: Gordon Salw'ay, 2nd W.M.R.; 10/916 ■ Pte. Norman Steele. Wellington Infantry;. 10/724 Pte. W. R. ,Surgenor, Wellington Infantry. A postcard has- been received from 7/832 Pte. Edwin Cross, 2nd Canterbury Infantry, who ■is now at Duhnen, cvi- j dently discharged " from hospital. His address is': Kttegagefangenenlager, Group 1, Comp. 5, Barr. 14,'Diilmen, Westfalen, Germany.

Fallowing, is a list of the new addresses of all"prisoners in Turkish hands:— '

' At Afiori Kara Hissar—lo/327-Pte. B. J. Davie, No.' 577, care of Officers' Mess; 8/1114 L.-Cpl. W. J. Forrester, Otago Infantry, N0.'580; 10/1503 Pte. Benjamin Greig, Wellington Infantry, No. 2173 ; 13/911 Tpr.. J. A. Harney,' Auckland M.R., No. 947; 13/324 Tpr. J. C. M'Lennan, A M.R.; 10/458 Pte.- G. F. Monk, Wellington- Infantry, Officers' Mess; 7/1762, Tpr. James Moore, Canterbury M.R.; 8/1876 Pte. Angus Morrison, Otago Infantry, No. 2138; 13/839 Tpr. Arthur Pearcej Auckland M.E.; 10/1320 Pte. Lee A. Porter Wellington Infantry, No. 1320; 13/942 Tor. D. L. Quintal, A.M.R., No. 1226; 10/915 Pte. Norman Steele, Wellington Infantry, No.' 1800; 10/724 Pte. W. R. Surgoner, Wellington Infantry, No. 2167. \At Angora—l 3/2414 Tpr. C. C. Bowen, A.M.R.; 10/1764 Pte. J. Bussel], Wellington .Infantry; 10/564 Pte. J. P. Havard, • Wellington Infantry, No. 652; 13/93 Tpr.. C. D. M'Leod, A.M.R. j 13/949 Tpr. J. H. Saunders, A.M.R. At Bilemedik Pozanti—lo/1445 Pte. J. P. Coulter, Wellington Infantry, No. 138; 10/1230 Cpl. F. J. Barlee Wellington Infantry, No. 512; JO/348 Pte. F. Gaffnoy, Wellington Infantry, No. 517 (Hadji Kiri); 10/1830 Pte. G. Gunn, Wellington Infantry, N0.'636; 12/1696 Pte, G. T. King, Auckland Infantry (Hadji Kiri); 10/1552 Pte. W. C. Lambert, Wellington Infantry (Hadji Kiri); Leading Stoker Archibald Wilson,' H.M Submarine E7; 10/520 L.-Cpl. Francis Shepperd, Wellington Infantry, No. 513. At Girshahore—7/879 Tpr. A. M Morice, C.M.R. ■ '

At Ismidt—lo/477 Sergt. G. M'Aneny Wellington Infantry; 7/869 Tpr. W. m! Martin, A.M.R., No. 1225; 12644 Tpr. Gordon Salway, W.M.R., No. 1320. ADVICE FOR RELATIVES. Tho New Zealand Prisoners of War Department urges -upon friends sending parcels to prisoners of war to pay great respect for the following prohibitions: Don't send scented soap in food parcels, ■ as it renders all the other contents uneatable;

■Don't put biscuits, chocolates, or sweets loose in boxes or parcels. Don't send cake except in a tin, well soldered down *nd perfectly air-tight.