WAR PRISONERS

Grey River Argus, 27 April 1945, Page 5

WAR PRISONERS

MADE STERILE BY GERMAN TREATMENT LONDON, April 25. An Associated Press correspondent at Paris stated: —Then? is widespread sterility among French prisoners being released from Germany. This is likely to have an important effect on France’s already dwindling birthrate. A leading Paris specialist, in a report to the Ministry of Health, states that Germans had performed surgical sterilisation on' only a few prisoners, chiefly Jews, but sterility was high among those released as a result of malnutrition, suffering and torture, and perhaps because Germans secretly introduced substances into prisoners’ food. He said; “It is still too soon to consider these spermatic disorders permanent, but we can expect in years to come a considerable recrudesence of masculine sterility among returned soldiers. The importance of > this question cannot be over estimated in a country where a rapid, vigorous redress of a birthrate is absolutely essential.” RELEASED N.Z. PRISONERS WELLINGTON, April 25. The Air Department announces that the following R.N.Z.A.F. prisoners of war are now safe in the United Kingdom, the rank Warrant Officer unless otherwise stated. Annesley, David, Shannon. Black, Alexander, Auckland. Culpan, William, Auckland. Dare, Charles, Auckland. Fair, Donald, Westport. Gracie, James, Auckland. Gratton, James, Thames. - Guymer, Haydon, Wellington. Lewis, A.C. 11, Henry, Auckland. McKenna, Conol, Patea. Mayall, Jack, Auckland. Meihana, Abraham, Rotorua. Morgan, Richard, Timaru. Murphy, Stanley, Wellington. Potter, Allan, Wellington. Protheroe, David, Nukualofa. Rawlinson, Basil, Auckland. Reynolds, George, Stratford. Sutherland, Andrew, Hamilton. Voice, William, Wellington.