PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 102, 1 May 1943, Page 6

PRISONERS OF WAR

THOUSANDS OF PARCELS

Recent ovex*seas reports created an impression that, a number of British prisoners of war had been transferred to Russia. As the outcome of inquiries the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office: has received cabled advice that there is no evidence of the transfer of Britis! prisoners. of war to Russia, and it is considered very improbable that such reports have any foundation. PRISONERS IN JAPAN. The International Red Cross advises thai Dr. Paravicini, their representative in Japan, distributed over 12.000 standard parcels and several medical parcels to prsoner 'of: war camps at Formosa, Korea, Tokio, Osaka, ' and Fukuoka, also some 300 parcels to four civilian camps. Receipts for these parcels were obtained from each camp headquarters and the International Red Cross delegate was holding some 1500 parcels in stock to meet urgent demands. Geneva also advises that a receipt has come to hand from a Malayan camp for approximately 48,000 packages delivered last September. The cable states that a further loan of 81,000 Swiss francs has been arranged in Singapore for additional purchases. The British Red Cross war organisation slates that over five and a half iniJlon food parcels were packed and dispatched from England during 1942 for distribution to British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy. Canada's weekly output is 70,000, and in addition New Zealand is packing and dispatching approximately 8000 food parcels every week. A further quantity of food in bulk is dispatched by Brtish communities in South America.