COMFORTS FOR PRISONERS
PRECAUTIONS BY RED CROSS ORGANISATIONS.
Some members of the public are reported to have hesitated in making donations of soldiers’ comforts to the Red Cross because they believed there was a possibility that gifts to war prisoners might ultimately fall into the hands of enemy soldiers. There is no possibility of this happening; all clothing and food given by New Zealanders for British prisoners is assured of reaching them, by careful organisation. Goods for prisoners in Germany are. from London, sent first to Geneva, where they are carefully checked by the society and sent to Berlin. Every parcel sent to a prisoner of war carries a postcard for his acknowledgement. The proportion of acknowledgements to date, wrote the Earl of Clarendon, recently, is 95 per cent. Frequent checks were kept on the authenticity of signatures by submitting them, for verification, to relatives of the prisoners.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 4
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148COMFORTS FOR PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 4
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