PRISONERS OF WAR
m t TRANSFERRED TO £ERMANY (P.A.) WELLINGTON, June 17. During the last fortnight advice concerning the transfer of another 41 New Zealanders from Italy to Germany has reached the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office, and in addition notification of two escapes to Switzerland and one to the Allied lines has been received. There are now approximately 284 New Zealanders who were known to be in Italian camps at the time of the capitulation and whose present whereabouts are unknown. Many next-of-kin, the office says, are under the impression that next-of-kin quarterly parcels are no longer going forward from New Zealand. That idea is definitely incorrect. Parcels are being despatched as usual. One hundred tons of banana flakes, conditioned' in airtight tins, comprise a recent gift for prisoners of war from the Red Cross committees in Brazil. The value of the gift is about £12,000, and, in addition, the committees are meeting the cost of freight and insurances.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25565, 19 June 1944, Page 4
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