NEW ZEALAND WAR PRISONERS
WELCOMED IN - LONDON. - . j London, January 9. . Sir f Thomas"Mackenzie,- '.-New'Zealand . | High Commissioner, entertained-250 repatriated New Zealand prisoners at dinner. He assiired the ex-prisoners that .they.-.TSttld .liavo.the warmest of xrel-< ' ; 'conies upon tlieir : return home. Ha j pointed out' two: 6hell-torn New Zealnnd. • j flags, presented by : New .Zealand women* ■ J .draped upon cblumns. ;in the dining" j room. (Cheers.) " " Colonel Leo" -Myers' deplored - tlife ish brutalities, nnd- instanced • New Zea-< lenders who were suffering from severe fractures and" -'\r6f©' transported in . a %pririgless cart, , and who, while on'the march.-were thumped ..upon in,- j jured parts. Many of the* wounded wera , lodged in hospitals not in a ■ fit condition, N i to house animals. The prisoners in; : Germany,' 'with .--notable exemptions,. re» "< ceived fair treatment. • , , ' - I : - Colonel Fitzherbert eaid the total nuRN i ber of 'New Zealand prisoners was 49J, j Df whom twenty-ftvo. were taken.cn Galli- j poli. twelve in Egypt, ten had died ini. .' Turkey.'.- Twenty of these had been ;r&" j /patriated to Ksypt, and seven had arrive $ ed in England.. The prisoners captured' in- France were'"'nine-*officers-- ana- 451 ' I others. , Two.of the .officers and. thirty j { seven men', hadidied; during their inif ! prisonmeht,'-3"3'had arrived in England, and fortv-eight ; were-still in Germany, J and woul(V shOr,tlyi.be.-repatriated. No -j other up a better ro- . cord than New. Zoiilaiiders. There was j no instance of a* man surrendering with- j out a,fight. 'The pfisoners represent 7 ' ] per cent, (sevoli per thousand .of- tha- | casualties).—Aus.-N.Z.'Cable ' :
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 7
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249NEW ZEALAND WAR PRISONERS Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 91, 11 January 1919, Page 7
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