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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 9, Issue 1, 28 August 1945, Page 2

Kindly German Officer Not all Germans are brutal and at least one officer whom he met went out of his way to be kind, said Sergeant C. Mutch of Auckland, who returned in the latest, prisoner ol war draft. After he had been captured a second time., he said,, he was, sent from Greece with a captured American gunner to a prison camp in Germany. The trijJ was to be made with a party of Italian soldiers in cattle trucks and the two prisoners had only single.ts j trousers and thin jackets. As they Avere boarding the train a German officer halted them and told them they would not be able to survive the cold. He then personally took them in his. car to the Red Cross depot at Salonika Avbere he secured for each man a heavy uniform, an overcoat and a parcel of comforts.

Treatment of Enemy Aliens Surprise at the. resolution passed at the recent Dominion conference of the R..S.A. in .Wellington calling . for the deportation within two years of all enemy aliens who arrived in New* Zealand since. 1939 taking with J & them the amount of property that they brought with them into the country ? is expressed in an editorial in the "Methodist Times." The article states that it is har'dly credjible that the conference should have passed such a resolution and it was .sincerely trusted that the Government would pay no heed to it. The. opinion was expressed that the action of the R.S.A. would not be endorsed by any fair-minded New Zealander,