GERMANS IN CRETE
PESSIMISM ABOUT WAR Melbourne, June 28. Repatriated prisoners of war, comprising sick, wounded and protected personnel from Italy during the next few months would be a steady stream, an Australian Army spokesman said here. A group of nine Australians and 14 Now Zealanders his arrived here, and others will be exchanged at Smyrna, Turkey, under a British-Italian agreement. A returning Australian soldier who spent two years in Crete, following the evacuation of the Allied forces there, said he had talked with German soldiers of the island’s garrison, who were pessimistic about the outcome of the war. Money in Crete was valueless and food was exchanged on the barter system. —P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 29 June 1943, Page 5
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