SEVERE HARDSHIPS
ENDURED BY PRISONERS AT BENGHAZI HARD WORK AND POOR FOOD. HARBOUR STUDDED WITH WRECKS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 28. The severe conditions under which 200 Australian prisoners at Benghazi are living are related by five Britons who escaped and trekked 300 miles across the desert to the British lines. They said the prisoners’ food was wretchedly inferior, the work excessively hard and long and medical attention inadequate. The prisoners work at least 14 hoursl a day when ships unload at Benghazi. All except those gravely ill must work and the British medical officer is unable to obtain adequate supplies or rest for those slightly sick. The workers’ diet consists of a breakfast of bread and weak coffee, lunch of bread and sardines and supper of weak macaroni stew, which rarely contains meat and never vegetables. Water is rigidly rationed, not allowing a daily wash. The escapees said Benghazi harbour was studded with wrecks and the town was largely evacuated every night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1941, Page 5
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164SEVERE HARDSHIPS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1941, Page 5
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