OUR MEN IN ITALY
WHOLE POSITION CONFUSED
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 12.45 p.m. LONDON, Sept. 14. "The whole position is confused," said C. B. Burdekin, of the Prisoners of War Department at New Zealand House, commenting on New Zealand prisoners in Italy. "There is no news coming through of what is happening. "Latterly there have been only a few of our boys in camps in southern Italy. Some of them may have been moved northwards before the invasion. It is likely that when the Armistice was announced New Zealanders, in common with other British prisoners, may have walked out of the northern camps hoping to make for Switzerland or Yugoslavia, but there is no confirmation of this.
"There are seven men reported so far who were removed from Italy to Germany before the fall of Mussolini. They are Gunner A. B. Cresswell and Privates T. Mottram and A. L. Richardson, all of Wellington, who are in Stalag IVB, and Privates E. S. McBride (Christchurch), H. McCluggage (Waipu), and T. R. Rusbridge, of Gore, and Sapper S. Seller (Auckland), who are in Stalag VIIIB."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1943, Page 5
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183OUR MEN IN ITALY Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 66, 15 September 1943, Page 5
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