Russians Prove Kind to British Airman’s Wife
LONDON, Noy. 22. , Mrs Wilkins, whom the Russians allowed to proceed to the bedside of her husband, Flight Lieutenant J. E. Wilkins, the injured survivor of the Dakota crash in the Soviet zone, is remaining in Schoenberg, where her husband is in hospital? Mrs Wilkins said to-day: “The Russian and German staff have been most helpful and kind. The Russians could not have beep nicer. I am very happy at the improvenrent in my husband’s condition.
The Associated Press Lubeck cor' respondent says official reports indicate that the Russians are doing all in their power to aid the injure! Briton. Skilled German doctors are caring for him and a British doctor in Lubeck is able to pass freel‘7 from the British air base to the German hospital. A staff officer commented ‘lhe Russians are being 100 per cent co-''operative—-in fact, they ..are leaning over backwards to be of help. ’
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Grey River Argus, 24 November 1948, Page 8
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