GREEK TRAGEDY

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 February 1947, Page 6

GREEK TRAGEDY

APPEAL TO GREYMOUTH EX-SOLDIER PRISON CAMP FRIENDS A former Greymouth soldier who, while a prisoner of war in Germany, became friendly with a Greek, Basilios Stamatellos, this week received a letter from him, making an appeal for clothes with which to keep his family from perishing, and also giving a graphic description of the tragic conditions existing in Greece to-day. “Since we parted in Germany and returned home, I found my homestead burned down by the Germans and my wife and children clothed in rags and barefooted,” began the letter. “Really it was a pitiful and deplorable sight. I wish I could beai their sufferings, instead of my little dear ones. “I am writing to you to ask lor any possible help you could give me in the way of old clothes or old shoes —anything that could save my children from perishing from cold during the winter months,” added Stamatellos. “Please help me, Mr. L . Have pity on us. Save us and we’ll think of you as a protector and saviour of my family. “I can’t write you any more, concluded the letter, “as the task is almost unbearable.”