Supplies for Prisoners of War
FLEET or BED CBOSS LOBBIES FBOM GENEVA Received Thursday, 10.30 p.m. GENEVA, Mar. 8. Fifteen Canadian lorries carrying Bed Cross supplies for British and Dominion prisoners in Germany left Geneva to-day. At Basle on the Ger-man-Swiss border, they will join a similar convoy and both will cross into Germany. Each lorry is in charge of a driver whose record has been thoroughly examined by the Germans. It is not known how far northward the lorries must travel before the Bed Cross parcels can he loaded on to the muchbombed German railways. The Allies have taken every possible precaution, but the trip will be hazardous for the drivers if the weather is overcast The lorries are painted white with a Bed Cross on their roofs, but with Allied planes constantly swooping down on all military-looking traffic, motoring in southern Germany is hazardous.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 58, 9 March 1945, Page 5
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146Supplies for Prisoners of War Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 58, 9 March 1945, Page 5
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