EXPERIENCES ON CRETE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 15 September 1941, Page 2

EXPERIENCES ON CRETE

CAPTURED NEW ZEALANDER Hastings, Sept. 13. To be wounded twice, to live in hiding for four days in a cave before being captured by Germans, and then to be flown from Crete to Greece, where in hospital he received treatment from a New Zealand doctor and ! New Zealand orderlies, who. like himj self, were prisoners of war, was the ! experience of Second-Lieutenant J. C. j McPhail, Opapa, told in a letter to a J friend. ! Second-Lieutenant McPhail states . that he first received a flesh wound, j and an hour or so later was hit a se--1 cond time, on this occasion receiving a fractured leg. He was carried to a cave and with other wounded men remained there for four days before being overtaken by Germans. The wounded were then dispatched by plane from Crete to Greece, and while in hospital he was agreeably surprised to find that he was being treated by a New Zealand doctor and that the or- • derlies were New Zealanders. “I am being treated exceptionally veil,” he writes, “and others to whom I have spoken also say that they are being well treated.”—P.A.