PRISONERS OF WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 5

PRISONERS OF WAR

REPORTS ON CAMPS

The Prisoners of War Inquiry Office has received advice that the Italian prison camps P.G. 107, 120, and 148 are all work camps formed from P.G. 57, which would seem to indicate that they are all in the neighbourhood of Udine. It is now known that P.G. 47 is situated at Modena; and not at Piacenza, as previously advised. Modena is just north of Bologna.

A report onP.G, 47, which was visited by an International Red Cross representative in March of this year, states that the camp is established in small, newly-constructed buildings. In the centre of, the camp is space large enough for playing ground and another large space is used as a garden. Walks outside the camp are organised. Just over 1000 officers and men are detained in the camp, filling it to capacity. Shower baths, washing and toilet facilities are described as "built entirely of marble, with separate cubicles." Hot showers are available twice a week for each man. The men have three blankets each.

P.G.. 107, also visited in March, houses approximately 1000 men. New huts have just been completed. One has been fitted out for tailors and bootmakers and for use as a storeroom for parcels, which together with mails are received regularly. Clothing conditions are stated to be satisfactory. Shower huts are now completed. British medical orderlies take care of the sick.

The examination .for the Institute of Bookkeepers has ~^~f.-»g that the general standard of the examinees who send papers from prisoner of war camps is much higher than the general standard of the candidates in England. Several candidates passed in the associate elementary and preparatory stages. A corporal passed in all five papers set by the Institute of Industrial Administration, four of them with distinction. In the Institute of Bankers examinations a bombardier passed in foreign exchange, English composition, and banking. The Prisoners of War Inquiry Office headquarters especially requests.copies lof recent letters from Stalag IXC.