A PRISONER'S EXPERIENCES IN GERMANY
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GREAT POOD SHORTAGE.
By Telegraph—Press Association.
Auckland, May 16.
Eleven months as a prisoner in Germany was tie experience of Private Bert Oxley, of Kingsland, who has just returned. He was wounded in a trench raid near Armentieres, and was left in a German trench suffering from eight wounds. Ho was sent to a German hospital in France, where he received fair treatment. ' Subsequently he was sent to Germany, and wavs repatriated in January last, his right arm having been permanently injured.
While in Germany, Private Oiley endured very severe conditions, particularly in regard to food, and his weight dropped from 12st. to Sst. "Things are certainly very bad in Germany, he said. "I was at Pachei, Cologne, Juliclr, and Mannheim, and was able to see the privations of the people. The shop windows are always emptv, and potato .queues often could not be supplied. At one prison our Christmas dinner was soup made out of the entrails of fish."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 4
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165A PRISONER'S EXPERIENCES IN GERMANY Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 204, 17 May 1918, Page 4
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