WAR PRISONERS IN TURKEY
ASKING FOP, FINANCIAL 1 AID.
By Telefraph—Press Aesooiatilm.
' Wanganui, April 24. A letter has been received at Wanganui from Corporal P. J. Barks, who was taken prisoner on Gallipoli. Ho states that during tho past seventeen months he has been confined in different places, but for the last year has been a prisoner at Bilemdik, where he is engaged at labouring work, receiving tho equivalent of two shillings arid eightpenco per day, out of which amount he has to pay for foodMost of the prisoners have had fever, and twenty-eight Englishmen and one Auckland soldier have died. The Turkish authorities removed the rest to a better climate. At present Corporal Earks is the only New Zealander at Bekmdik, but three others are stationed fifteen miles away. He sees them, occasionally. He adds that Now Zealanders get a few parcels from England, but none from tho Dominion. All are short .of money—some "stony broke." The interned men suggest that patriotio so[cieties should endeavour to assist them. [Small financial assistance is given all prisoners through the American Embassy. ' •
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3062, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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180WAR PRISONERS IN TURKEY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3062, 25 April 1917, Page 4
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