PRISONERS IN CASTLE
SOME NEW ZEALANDERS NEW YORK. Jan. 22 A special correspondent of the New York Times, who visited 175 British prisoners of war, including several Australians and New Zealandcrs, at an ancient Hessian castle, found them all healthy and living under reasonable conditions. They slept in cots, some of which wore placed in shipboard fashion above each other. All the rooms were painstakingly clean and neat, and showers were provided. Tho prisoners were allowed to keep a iiUlo garden near the castle draw bridge, a id this, was one of their most cherished privileges. The walls of tho rooms and halls were decorated with drawings of bombers, warships and merchant vessels and portraits of girls, which were tho work of tho prisoners, most of whom were airmen or naval men. Tho only entrance to tho castle was a huge old drawbridge, but the sentries paced the moat day and night. The prisoners' only complaint was the scarcity of cigarettes and tobacco, but they are receiving occasional parcels through the Red Cross.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23879, 1 February 1941, Page 10
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173PRISONERS IN CASTLE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23879, 1 February 1941, Page 10
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