WHEN DOES IT RETURN?

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 49, 27 August 1945, Page 6

WHEN DOES IT RETURN?

N.Z. DIVISION WANTS TO KNOW

(Official War Correspondent, N.Z.E.F.) LAKE TRASIMENO, Aug. 23. There is only one topic of conversation in the Division today, "When are we going home?" And while rumours fly wildly the men await definite news with patience, which will.be wearing thin if they are kept in the dark much longer. . Until the Japanese war ended, a certain amount of training was done in preparation for the East. Now that is unnecessary, but unit officers are working hard to keep the men inter-, ested and are doing an excellent job under- some difficulties. The Division is camped in a very large area, completely surrounding the lake, in tented camps. Approximately one-third of the Division is absent each week at a rest camp on the Adriatic coast, near Senigallia, and all units have leave parties to Venice, Florence, Rome, and at a mountain leave centre. For those in camps the general pattern of the day is unit parade and route march in the morning, sports in the afternoon and evenings, filled in with reading, letter-writing, and moving pictures about twice weekly, and in some units lectures and debates. Health generally is excellent. The Division is waiting expectantly the return from England at the end of the month of Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, who is expected to bring back definite news.