PRISONER IN GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1915, Page 7

PRISONER IN GERMANY.

NEW ZEALAN'DER'S APPEAL FOR FOOD. Wellington, November 12. An Aucklander has received from Private Ben Good, an Auckland man who enlisted in the Scots Guards in England at the beginning of the war, a letter written from a German prison camp, showing that the British prisoners' chief trouble is serious lack of good food. The writer was taken prisoner during the Ncuvc Chapelle action, lie states: "Twice a month f am allowed to write a letter. No doubt you have often wondered why T have not written before, but I did "not think the war would last so long, and I have been in communication with all the people T know in England to send me out a parcel of eatables, etc. T aid now of a different opinion as regards the war. and as all war news is strictly forbidden in all letters, let that suffice, and when writing don't say anything about the war, as all letters are censored. In regard to myself, I am Al. and this place. Morse'berg. in Saxony, is where I am imprisoned." We are working out in the open, and it gives you a terrible appetite Can you and dad, with any other help you can get. send me a parcel or a box'of tinned eatables every now and again ? Anything you can eat, that is. in tins, will be acceptable, and being in tins will stand the long voyage. Anything like the following will do:—Tea, coffee, cocoa, milk, sugar, jam. dripping, tinned bread, biscuits, fish, corned beef, or any tinned meat-, sweets, sardines—in fact, anything in tin*. Send as often as you can, and if any of your chums will' help vnu T will be verv much ob liged. '■All my pals in the regiment are gone —killed.' 1 mean—with one exception. Kenendy, who is with me here, there being only thirty-nine left out of my battalion.—Yours ever. Private Ben Good, No. 7 Company, Kriegsgefangenlager, Mercsberg. Germany, cave of G.P.0.. Mount Pleasant, London. England. "P.S.—Don't waste any time, as it takes an awful long time to come all this wav.''