PRISONERS OF WAR.
• '4 - /; A NEW ZEALANDER'S (EXPfiKfc '■ ' ENCES. . :l By Telegraph—Praia Associattafi. j Auckland, Last NigKt. * Eleven months as a prisoner in fler-;)* many was the experience of Private jtett'} Oxley, of Kingßland,.who retohwij fet-'i terday. -.He was wounded in a trench? raid near Armentieres, and was left in*« a German trench suffering from eight', wounds. Pie was sent to a German .host- i pital in France, where he received fair treatment. Subsequently he Waa sent ,' to Germany, and was repatriated in uary last, his right arm having b#en permanently injured. While in %nnany ". Private Osley endured very severe cto«' ' ditions, particularly in regard to fdod, '> and his weight dropped from 12st. to ' Bst. "Thing's are certainly very bad itt ,|f Germany," he said. "I was at Pachir,' ' Cologne, Julich and Mannheim, and *as'.• able to see the privations of the people. 5* Shop windows are always empty, ithd ' potato queues could not be.supplied. At '. one prison our Christmas dinner WW soup, made of the entrails of fish.*
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Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1918, Page 5
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169PRISONERS OF WAR. Taranaki Daily News, 17 May 1918, Page 5
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