QUICK RECOVERY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23996, 20 June 1941, Page 6

QUICK RECOVERY

NEW ZEALAND TEOOPS

RESTING AND REFITTING

MESSAGE FROM COMMANDER friv TKI-KCIIAITI —I'IIKSS ASSOCIATION'] W KLLI NO TON. Thu rsday The spirit and present activities of New Zealand troops were referred to in a recent cablegram the acting-Prime Minister, the Hon. W. Nash, lias received from Major-General 13. C. I'reyberg, V.C., commander of tho Expeditionary Force.

"The men who have been evacuated from Crete are in camp having a wellearned leave, and they are recovering quickly from the strain under which tliev were working, ' said General I'rejberg. "We are now getting down to the job of refitting as quickly as possible. TT "The Prime Minister, the Kt. Hon. [» leaser, Ims seen and talked to all the men in hospital and addressed troops back from Crete on parade. During the anxious days of the evacuation Mr Eraser -was indefatigable in ensuring that everything possible was done to rescue the maximum number from Crete. "1 wish the Government to know also that, everything possible was done for the wounded," General hrevborg a(|(k ,l, .-and the doctors and Royal \ rmv Medical Corps personnel rornaitied in Crete to care for them lo the people of New Zealand who have suffered loss in these campaigns, the men of the New Zen land Expeditionary |.' OIT e send their deepest sympathy.