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PRISONERS FROM GREECE UP TO 2000 MEN (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Aug. 11. The Red Cross apd St. John war organisation announces that from the latest figures it appears that about 2000 British prisoners of war taken in Greece have been evacuated to German prison camps. At the end of July there were over 9000 prisoners at Salonika and about 2000 wounded officers and men in hospital at Athens. There are still over 3000 to be evacuated from Crete, but is is possible that not all of the latter were British. The Internationa! Red Cross has dispatched upwards of 24,000 food parcels from reserve stocks in Geneva to Greece, it being understood that a restricted rail service is in operation.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 6
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