GENERALLY WELL TREATED

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 259, 31 July 1942, Page 5

GENERALLY WELL TREATED

N.Z. Prisoners In Italy (By Telezranli.—Press Assn.—Convrlght.) (Special Australian Correspondent.) ( SYDNEY, July 30. ’ ' “Generally speaking, New Zealand and Australian war prisoners in Italy are being ®well treated —much' better than some statements in tlie Press indicate,” said Major Trevor de Clive Lowe, of the New Zealand Army Medical Corps, on arrival at an Australian port. Major Lowe, an Auckland surgeon, was captured by the Germans at Sidl Rezegh in November last year. He spent five months in an Italian internment camp and recently was repatriated with other non-combatants and badlywounded men under the British-Ital-ian exchange agreement. “Our food was poor in quantity and. quality,” he said, “but officers received the same ration as Italian civilians. Lower ranks fared even better. They were given a small amount of work, and for this received a high ration. Red Cross parcels arrived regularly, and made conditions much more tolerable. If the relatives of men still there send parcels, let them include chocolate blocks and woollen goods. There is no wool in Italy, and warm underclothing, cardigans, and stockings particularly, will be appreciated.”