CLOTHING AND FOOD NEEDED
Empire Prisoners In Germany (Rec. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 15. New Zealand, Australian, British and Palestinian t s taken prisoner in Greece and Crete a. ■ in prison camps Stalag XVIIIA, and Stalag XV’TID. ’ i Germ- - British .nd Anzac (fleers are held in CampOfla;V T , Reporting this, the Ir ternational Red Cross Committee states that the camps are up to the standard of prison camps in Germany. Some prisoners in Stala XVIIID were housed in tents, but j lanent buildings are now stated to bv under c .nstruction. There is no seriou.. cause for complaint, but the men’ chief needs are food and < 'othing. These are being supplied fast as possible from thr reserve formed for tuis purpose by the International Red Cr ss C: ittee at Geneva.
Amr ’age * . Beir -Fates that a contingent of Allied officers to*’lling approximately a quarter >f the war prisoners ‘aken in Beirut from Syria has arrived in Beirut from Marseilles under the Armistice agreement. The officers, after their capture, were flown from Beirut to Athens and later they passed through Yugoslavia. Austria and Germany In Germany they saw the prison camps containing British and French so lers. Tl.e French appeared to be harshly treated.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22044, 18 August 1941, Page 6
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204CLOTHING AND FOOD NEEDED Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22044, 18 August 1941, Page 6
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