PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 6

PRISONERS OF WAR

THOUSANDS OF

PARCELS

The Prisoners of War Inquiry Office Headquarters, Wellington, requests next-of-kin to send copies of any recent letters they have received from men in any of the Italian prison camps. Prisoners have recently expressed pleasure at the prompt receipt of mail which has been brought about by next-of-kin using the air mail letter card procurable at all post offices. This method is recommended by the P.O.W. Office. A , B A letter received recently from a prisoner of war, who was fourteen months in hospital in Greece after he was captured, states that, thanks to the Red Cross, his diet was all it should have been for his complaint He states that he had the best of attention and that there were British doctors and a New Zealand dentist. He adds that the Red Cross parcels never failed and were sufficient to make it unnecessary to eat any. of the prison food. Every care was given and extra clothing such as pyjamas and hospital comforts were added to the personal parcel. The prisoner has now been transferred to Stalap XVIII A and states that he had received English. Canadian, and now New Zealand parcels. Acknowledgments from the camps received by the International Red Cross during the month of August are 211.939 food parcels, 1332 invalid comforts parcels. 6376 tobacco parcels, and bulk food equivalent to 38,500 food parcels. In that month the Red Cross, dispatched over 312,000 food parcels and approximately 11,000 tobacco parcels. In addition Argentine, Brazilian, and other bulk food estimated at 85,000 food parcels were also forwarded to A'je prison camps. PRISONERS PASS EXAMS. , Information has come to hand of the results of examinations in prisoner of war camps. Five candidates passed the motor-vehicles mechanics course Other candidates passed in various grades in technical electricity, electrical engineering practice, and builders' measurements of quantities. Three firsts fo*- brewing have been gained for examinations by the City and Guilds of London Institute. The papers of one candidate were described as outstanding and he has been awarded the Institute Silver Medal, being bracketed with a British Isles candidate Two sergeants have obtained a first class in typography section A compositor's work.