HAPPY BUT HAGGARD
PRIVATION LEAVES MARKS (Rec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY. Apl. 7. Seven hundred British and American soldiers—the first to be evacuated by air from Germany after being liberated by their comrades from prison camps—are now in army leave camps near a French Channel port, says a correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. There they will remain until fit for the remainder of the journey home. They are happy, but haggard, states the correspondent. Months of privation have left marks on these men, 5 per cent, of whom arrived too sick and worn to undertake further travel. In Germany they had been subsisting on half a bowl of watery soup a day and one loaf of bread for six men. Some had lost nearly seven stone.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25814, 9 April 1945, Page 6
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