PRISONER OF WAR.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 533, 25 October 1915, Page 3

PRISONER OF WAR.

NEW ZEALANDER IN TURKEY. AN INTERESTING LETTER. ( Mr F. H. Davie, (if Rotoiti, sends us the following extract from a letter received from his son, R. J. Davie, who is a prisoner of war in Constantinople. Mr Davie also received by the same mail a card from the Red Cross-Society, Geneva (Switzerland), which gives particulars as; received from the Red Crescent Society at Constantinople. It reports that he is wounded in both -arms. The. letter states:—

"No doubt ydu by aow that f am a prisoner, is no rieeil t'b"Wdrry'' about Jjttiie woiuid as it is progressing f ayqurably. We have had a. fairly-;.. ; sinc© being captured. ' There several of my old mates here .also, including, two old tent mates, George McAneny and George Monk. The former is writing this letter for me, as my arm. is a bit stiff yet. The American Consul looks after us well, and sees that we want for nothing. We are on, quite" a different diet here, the food being mainly a coarse meal in different forms, but it is surprising how used to it one gets. We are in hopes of seeing Constantinople after the war. „ It was night time when we came through in a motor bus, so did not see much of the city. We are all doing our best to pick up a bit of the Turkish language, as there are very few people in the hospital who speak English. Some of the doctors speak French, so I been racking my brains to try arid remember it." R. J. Davie is Mr Davie's third son. He is 22 years of age, and joined the West Coast Wellington Infantry Battalion in the Main Expeditionary Force. He was'at the storming of the Dardanelles', and was wounded and. taken prisoner on the Bth August. »