IMMENSE TASK
SORTING OF PRISONERS OF WAR. WELLINGTON, May 8. The prisoner-of-war department of •the Red Cross Society is being appraoched by many anxious people inquring about next-of-kin who were located in camps which 1 lie cable messages of the last fortnight say have been released by the Allied Forces. Little specific information about individuals has so far come through, except in those cases where prisoners of war have been flown back to England. In the big camps in Southern Germany the position is less clear. It was stated yesterday that in the csse of one camp, announced as released, there were more than 300 New Zealanders, but of that number the names of only three had been received. One of the many ‘roubles, it was explained, was that in some instances British prisoners of war were suddenly released while millions of slave -workers were milling round the country, and it might take weeks, or perhaps months, before they could be collected and looked after, preparatory to being sent back to England. These millions of refugees (so called to distinguish them from prisoners-of-war), having been set free in various parts of the country within a few days of one another, presented an immense task to the authorities concerned with sorting them out.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 May 1945, Page 5
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