FOUL TACTICS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 October 1941, Page 5

FOUL TACTICS

FLAGRANT GERMAN BREACH OF FAITH OVER PRISONERS OF WAR EXCHANGE. BRITAIN CANCELS SAILING OF SHIPS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, October 7. It is authoritatively stated that owing to a flagrant breach of faith on the part of the German Government, the German sick and wounded are being disembarked from the hospital ships and sent back to the camps. It is also authoritatively stated that a message was received on the morning of October 6, through the American Government, saying that the German Government was now prepared only to agree to a limited exchange of prisoners on a numerical basis. , Attempts were made on the afternoon of October 6, by wireless, to clarify the position, but when it became evident that Germany was attempting, at the last moment, to completely overthrow the previously agreed upon basis for the repatriation scheme, Britain found it necessary to cancel the sailing of the ships. It is understood that the German sick and wounded prisoners of war were disembarked this afternoon and put into a special train.