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BRITISH WAR PRISONERS FROM GREECE AND CRETE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 10 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 10. All unwounded British prisoners ot war captured in Greece are now in camps in Germany, according to the present information of the War Office. The United States Embassy in Berlin has arranged for these camps to be visited. Unwounded prisoners captured in Crete are known to have been en route to Germany. Inquiries whether they have yet arrived are being made. Precise information also has been requested on the number and location of wounded and sick prisoners in Greece and Crete. A representative of the International Red Cross committee has. arrived in Ankara, and means of transporting food parcels to British and Imperial wounded prisoners in Greece is under active discussion with the German and Italian authorities.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20630, 11 August 1941, Page 5
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