N.Z. WAR PRISONERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 60, 8 September 1941, Page 7

N.Z. WAR PRISONERS

"ADOPTED" BY AMERICAN

LONDON, September 5. Three hundred New Zealand troop* ■ taken prisoner < !in Crete have been »

"adopted" by an American, Mrs/; lan Campbell, who 'for some time has been responsible for forwarding from Lisbon thousands of parcels of comforts for British prisoners of war in Germany.;

. The New Zealariders, after their-ax-rival at a prison camp in Germany near the frontier of , occupied France, made contact with Mrs. y Campbell through the Red Cross. :

She: has now received their first messages of gratitude for comforts. The chief complaint of the prisoners ap. pears to be the delay at hearing from their relatives' in New Zealand. -

Mrs. Campbell's husband was taken prisoner in Flanders while serving with a British regiment. •' ;