PRISONERS OF WAR.
WANGANUI. October 21,
A letter received here by his brother from Sergeant George M'Anony, who is a prisoner of war in the Hospital Militaire Maltepe, Constantinople, dated August 20, says: —“X have had the bad luck to b© wounded and captured. Our boys took a trench and got cut up, and tho trench was retaken by the Turks. I was wounded by a bomb which burst in the trench. I was hit twice. My wounds are nearly healed, and I am now O.K. I saw the gamest boys in the world do down at dawn that morning We are being treated well, and the wounded arc well cared for.” The letter came through the Switzerland Red Cross authorities
LONDON, September 10.
Two Now Zealanders who were reservist? and were recalled to tho colours on the outbreak of war are now prisoners in Giessen camp, north of Frankfort. They are: Private Benjamin Good, 7152 (Auckland), and Private O. Kennedy. 7632 (Porirua). Both are in tho Scots Guilds, and were officially recorded as being in Germany at the end of July.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 50
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