GREEK AFFECTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 134, 8 May 1945, Page 6

GREEK AFFECTION

NEW ZEALAND, SOLDIERS I V AUCKLAND, May 7. (Press Assn A rm affection held Re erence to the var Gnjck for New ZeaUncicrs T j Kins> pie-was made - jias returned to of Wellington, * ° " ;lorc than five Nc w Zealand after years service alld relief orgamehnrgeo thesuppv Kill „ “K c o«e association with the pcohad a cl< ?~ e , ny opportunities to New Zealamrim affection of the Greeks for the 1 Yf Wpw Zealand is something people of New Zeal sjmply be _ one caniiot (1- Brigadier King. nOrf ''three occasions I ( heard the Greeks use the expression : To its the T\Z fn al aritcs S frompresence^of Now Zealand soldiers in Greece. T e ' i tw sheltered hundreds of our r° P Tl ev risked their own lives to do’ it ’fed the New Zcebn*;, literally to'their last crn.t, and finally fhev helped them to escape. 1 “Now that, mail can go into Gr «co if the soldiers who were sheltered there vvoi Id write to the people who helped them it would he greatly appreciatedAn appeal had been made to New Zealand people for clothing for the Greeks who were badly m need of it. said Brigadier King, and be hoped the appeal would recede a ready response. .