PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 5

PRISONERS OF WAR

THOSE IN GERMANY

HELP FROM RED CROSS

Recently an article was published in the "Evening Post" pointing out that according to evidence collected by the Prisoners of War Relatives' Association, prisoners in, Germany had not received any benefit from Red Cross parcels during the early days of their incarceration. The Dominion secretary of the New Zealand Red Cross (Captain M. S. Galloway, M.C.) is fortunately able to show that the Red Cross has now "got over the fence," to quote the "Scottish Red Cross News," and is assuring a steady supply of parcels to prisoners.

The "News" publishes letters from prisoners which state that plentiful supplies of parcels are arriving at the prison camps. A number of these letters are from stalag (labour) camps about which the P.W.R.A. had little information. A sample of the letters received from such camps is as follows: "Since I last wrote we have received some grand issues from the Red Cross and yesterday I had a share in a parcel from the British Red Cross ; which included such luxuries as • steak pie, tea, cocoa, and fruit salad. !so they help to make things brighter." 1 Anyone who read the menus in Ger;man prison camps published from the "News Sheet" of the P.W.R.A. will realise the feelings of the prisoners in Germany when they received such delicacies.

I Captain Galloway points out that ' disorganisation was inevitable in the early stages but that the Red Cross ihas not failed the men imprisoned in Germany, and relatives of New Zealand prisoners will be delighted to ■learn that comforts are getting through.