What Germans Allow War Prisoners to Receive

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 209, 3 September 1941, Page 8

What Germans Allow War Prisoners to Receive

Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Sept. 1

A list of the articles which the German authorities permit to be included in parcels sent to prisoners of war in Germany has been received by the parents of Second-Lieutenant D. C. Bailey, of Otahuhu, who advised them in a letter received lasj; week that he is now in a German camp. The list wives notes on how prisoners’ relatives should conduct their correspondence.

The information is contained in e typewritten sheet issued by the camp commandant and is headed: “Notes for P.0.W., for transmission to relatives.” The circular is for enclosure with letters sent by prisoners, and is anted June 24. Lieutenant Bailey’s letter was written on June 25

The notes instruct relatives not to mention “forbidden subjects,” to keep letters short, and not to put them in parcels. Parcels are permitted to contain clothing and underwear distinctive from civilian clothing, footwear, food, and “similar things”: tobacco cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, toilet reo.uisites (excepting hair lotion, mouth 'wash, tooth paste, and ‘perfumes), games, cards and books.

Among the articles prohibited aro torches, cigarette lighters, candles, medicaments of any kind, vaseline, ammonia, boot polish, fruit juices, cigarette tips and papers, note books, writing paper, postcards and newspapers.