FORMER PATEA MAN IN GERMANY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 254, 27 October 1939, Page 6

FORMER PATEA MAN IN GERMANY

HE IS ALIVE AND WELL PILOT-OFFICER L. H. EDW ARDS A Press cable message received by tire “Chronicle - ’ from New York last night stated that a national broadcasting commentator, Mr. H. R. Baukage, who hart just arrived in New York from Berlin, said that the New Zealander, Flying-Officer L. H. EdI wards (of Wellington and formerly of Palea) was alive and well. Mr. Baukage declared that the broadcast in which Mr. Edwards participated from a German naval hospital on September 13, was not a fake, as reported in London. Mr. Baukage into rv i e wed Fl yi n g-Office r Ed w a rds, the Irishman, Slattery, and the Yorksliireman, Booth, survivors of a crew of four shot down at sea. Edwards’ nose and ear were bandaged. He was very shy and hesitant about broadcasting. He is facing imprisonment cheerfully and said: ”L employ my time learning German.” Pilot-Officer Edwards, writing from a prison camp to a friend in London, said he found lhe German officers and men “good scouts.” He was being treated very well and the camp was comfortable, containing a fence area for exercising. The chief pastime was bridge. Pilot-Officer Edwards asked ii;s friends to send him tinned meats, caste, and cigarettes.