EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue XXI, 22 May 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

Jo* many weeks ago an editorial in this paper dealt with the many advantages which wo in the Noumea urea enjoy over other units farther North, have v/o oyer thought how lucky we all arc in comparison with ?° .other 3 Div units, but those men who have been unfortunate enough to htve oeen cauturod in' the early stages of the war and who have been he x d as prisoners of war ever: since. - Two years ago last Thursday parachute troops started their invasion ox Crete; .a few weeks earlier they had overrun Creese; and then with .overwhelming superiority in men and materials they attacked and finally forced the 2nd. J., aiv from their temporary island base. in those months 6r Greece and Crete the Germans captured many prisoners - a large proportion of whom were New Eealando.s. ! • a .targe _ Mn xO3 n t ?n sno r the \ e men have sufiered a life of extreme harded <4?</-> lioh iooli ha 3 b + ea ao&roe > mail limited, und much delay- ° uuacooscs must neoessuri ly.'havo been reduced to a * minimum, and entertainment has been entirely of their own mailing. mentq? o ' W T m,AI ! aulvi f e ’' p -°° d - 00li - dl^ now 8« end entertains h uli r ed not anawcl, h‘. at 'uostien, for the average man has realised it all long ago. hut there is the mm who will always answer "But places’" !6Ct Hc?° Up o-f n 1 '*'* ,thut ?®" oao '■ ueation - "6iH you change plucca. Ho? Of course you won"*. Sfhcn lot us not grumble at our lo - we uro among the fortunate ones.