WELL TREATED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1939, Page 8

WELL TREATED

—♦ NEW ZEALAND OFFICER IN GERMANY. INTERNED IN COMFORTABLE CAMP. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. . Pilot-Officer Edwards, writing from a prison camp to a friend in London, said he found the German officers and men “good scouts.” He was treated very well and the camp was comfortable, containing a fenced area for exercising. His chief pastime was bridge. Pilot-Officer Edwards asked his friends to send tinned meats, paste and cigarettes. A cablegram from London on September 15 stated that the New Zealander, Pilot Officer L. 11. Edwards, was ■ the first British official casualty of the war. He was promoted Pilot-Offi-cer on April 12. He was posted as missing on September 15. THREE SURVIVORS, FROM CREW OF FOUR • SHOT DOWN. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) NEW YORK( October 25. Arriving from Berlin, 11. R. Baukage, ! a national broadcasting commentator. . said the New Zealand airman, Pilot* , Officer Edwards, was alive and well. L Mr Baukage declared that the broadcast from the Gorman naval hospital on . September 13 was not a fake as report- . ed in London. Mr Baukage interviewed Pilot-Officer Edwards, an Irishman named Slattery and a Yorkshireman named Booth, the survivors of a crew of four shot down at sea. Pilot-Officer Edwards, whose nose and car were bandaged, was very shy and hesitant ■ about broadcasting. Facing imprisonment cheerfully, he said: “I shall em- : ploy lhe time in learning German.”