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NEW ZEALAND TROOPS IN EGYPT MESSAGE FROM GENERAL FREYBERG. SYMPATHY WITH RELATIVES OF FALLEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 18. The spirit and present activities of the New Zealand troops were referred to in a recent telegram to the Acting Premier, Mr W. Nash, received from Major-General Freyberg: “The men who have been evacuated from Crete are in camp, having well earned leave, and they are recovering quickly from the strain under which they were working," said General Freyberg. “We are now getting down to the job of refitting as quickly as possible. The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) has seen and talked to all the men in hospital and has addressed the troops back from Crete on parade. During the anxious days of the evacuation, Mr Fraser was indefatigable in ensuring that everything possible was done to rescue a maximum number from Crete. I wish the Government to know also that everything possible was clone for the wounded and that doctors and R.A.M.C. nerspniiol remained in Crete to care for them. To the people of New Zealand who suffered loss in these campaigns. the men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force send their deepest sympathy.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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