BULK DISTRIBUTION
STANDARD PARCELS FOR WAR
PRISONERS
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, April 19
Standard parcels for prisoners of war dispatched in bulk for distribution by camp leaders, instead of being addressed to individuals by name, are a development announced by the managing director of the prisoners of war department of the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance war organisation. He said that the department was how dispatching considerably more than 45,000 parcels a week to XUeneva, and that sometimes the weekly total reached 85.000.
The method of bulk distribution had the great advantage of abolishing delays and disappointments entailed when personally addressed parcels followed a prisoner round if, as frequently happened, he was transferred to another camp. It also ensured that all prisoners shared alike in the parcels reaching the camp leader. Next-of-kin might still send quarterly parcels to individual prisoners through the Red Cross.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 8
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145BULK DISTRIBUTION Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 93, 21 April 1941, Page 8
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