PRISONERS OF WAR
DESPATCH OF COMFORTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 9. The Prisoners o* War Inquiry Office advises next-of-kin that quarterly parcels must be handed in at a post office. They will not be accepted at inquiry offices, as it is against the postal regulations. Copies of recent letters, espacially from prisoners in Italy, are asked for. with the date on which they were written.
The office has received advice that up to December last the British Red Cross despatched 71.000 volumes to camps in Germany, Italy, and occupied France, and has built up a considerable reserve at Geneva. More than 3000 volumes of plays, 15,000 packs of cards, 2000 chess sets, 800 sets of draughts and dominoes, 2300 mouth organs, 2000 flutes. 750 ukuleles, 24 sets of bagpipes, 3000 dance scores, and 3500 community song books have also besn provided, besides choral music, opera scores, and orchestral arrangements. ' The total number of prisoners now on headquarters records is:
. .. 5900 Air force . .. 138 . .. 9 Merchant seamen and t civilians ........ . ........ 27 Miscellaneous .. . . .. 26 Unofficial . .. 36
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24912, 11 May 1942, Page 4
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