WAR PRISONERS FREE
AUSTRALIANS REPATRIATED Sydney May 14.1 Freedom has done more than any, medicine could do for the health of the) eight Australians who were repatriat-l ed from Italian prison camps a month ago, writes an official Australian war | correspondent from Cairo. The eight repatriated men have all put on weight, and, although some are disabjed by their war injuries, the colour has come back to their faces. They have lived quietly in a hospital and a rest home since their return on April 12. content with no other luxuries than good and regular food and the knowledge that there are no locks! on the door. “I’m not used to good food again even yet.” said Private George GeadesJ of Yerong Creek, New South Wales. Private Alan Alway, of Caulfield, Melbourne, said that when he woke in the morning he still got a dreadful feeling that another day in prison stretched before him—“then 1 suddenly realise where I am and I jump out of bed with sheer joy.” ‘‘Great not to have a guard with a rifle behind you all the time,” said Private A. Mathieson. of Mount Lindsay (Queensland). “That’s happiness in itself.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 118, 22 May 1942, Page 6
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