Long Friendship Thirty-five years ago a Danish sailor who visited Dunedin on board 'u Danisli ship, enjoyed the hospitalitj' provided at the Sailors' Rest. Thereafter lie corresponded regularly with a friend in the Rest until Hitler's invasion of Din mark in 19IH. As Long ago a> April of last year his efriend sent him a 2.">-\vord message on an international Red Cross form provided for the purpose and last Yveek a reply came back that the sailor and his family were "well. The message reached him in September after a long journey through neulral countries to Geneva, from where it was taken by a German plane to Denmark. The reply was sent to the Red Cross at Geneva and found its way back to Dunedin after four months.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 12, 4 February 1942, Page 8
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