LIVES IN CASTLE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 227, 24 September 1940, Page 5

LIVES IN CASTLE.

PILOT PRISONER. FIRST "CASUALTY ,, OF WAR. NEW PLYMOUTH, tHs day. Pilot-Officer I*. H. Edwards, formerly of Patea, who was the first official "casualty" of the war and who haa been a prisoner in Germany since the first Roya! Air Force raid on Kiel, has written to a friend, Mr. G. W. Thompson, of Hokitika. Pilot-Officer Edwards, who is interned in a castle, says on a postcard that he is learning to play a saxophone and speak French.

"Avant trois raoie de ca je serai complement fou," was the remark of a French fellow-prisoner, stated Pilot* Officer Edwards, concerning ids saxophone. In plain English it means* "After three months of that I shall be completely mad." "Life in the castle," he adds on bis card to Mr. Thompson, who played Rugby with him at Wellington, **ie much the same, except that, now summer is here, we get plenty of outdoor exercise and sunbathing. I am still pounding away at French and ha** added music to my varied accomplishments. I think that I play a mean saxophone, but the remark of the Fr3nchnian seems to sum up my ability in that direction. "There are no more Air Force office™ herp. but another naval officer off the

,Glowworm arrived two days as" md we were able to grt new* of Enzlau.i.*" He mentioned thai at that time he was rather out of touch with happenings in New Z€alandi "One of the T-r.ys may even drop in on me."' he a<!ded. "Xot that I would I wish this incarceration racket on anytbody." In conclusion he mentioned that he would like to hear of the doings of [his friends.