BRITISH PRISONERS
TRANSFERS FROM GREECE TO GERMANY RED CROSS & ST JOHN REPORT. UPWARDS OF 24,000 PARCELS SENT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, August 11. The Red Cross and St. John war organisation announces that from the latest figures it. appears that about 2 000 British prisoners of war taken in Greece have been evacuated to German prison camps. At the end of July there were over 9,000 prisoners at Salonika and about 2.000 wounded officers and men in hospital at Athens. There are still over 3,000 to be evacuated from Crete, but
it is possible that not all the latter were British. The International Red Cross has despatched upwards of 24,000 food parcels from reserve stocks in Geneva to Greece, it being understood that a restricted rail service is in operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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135BRITISH PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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