Behind Wire All the Time
Any impression that prisoners oi war were able to see much of the country in which they were held was contradicted bv Captain R. M. Young in an address to the Canterbury Territorial Association. Except while he was being taken to the prison hospital, in which he was kept, he was never out from behind the wire, and the Italians took exceptional precautions to see that the patients did not escape. There were two fences of 8-foot barbed wire round the hospital, with sentries about every 30 yards, and searchlights at the corners. ‘The English doctors at the hospital were permitted to go for a walk once a week but they were accompanied by the interpreter officer, the security officer, and 10 guards for tile eieht doctors. That was typical of the Italian attitude.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22739, 13 November 1943, Page 6
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139Behind Wire All the Time Timaru Herald, Volume CLIV, Issue 22739, 13 November 1943, Page 6
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