BRITISH INTERNED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1942, Page 4

BRITISH INTERNED

CONTACT WITH PRISONERS IN FRANCE. In its review of the past year's activities, the Committee for British Subjects Evacuated from France, 66 Whitcombe Street, London, W.C.2, reports that committees of a similar character are being established in Liverpool, Exeter. Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Nottingham and Glasgow. The London committee has done invaluable work for the many British former residents of France, taking such steps as can at present be taken to protect their interests in France. Fortunately, calls for assistance have not been too great, but much help has been given, and given quickly, whenever the need has been made known.

Hundreds of people have been brought into contact, and much very fine work has been done in tracing missing people. The British subjects who formerly lived in France meet together at a tea once a month in London and evoke the souvenirs of their years spent in France, and if they are among the most patriotic of Britishers almost every one of them, is anxious to get back to France again. But the British back safely in Britain do not forget their less fortunate compatriots caught by the tide of Nazi invasion of France. The report says on this subject: "For some time past the Committee has sought an opportunity to express to British civilians interned in France, in a practical manner, the sympathy we all feel for them in their difficult position. We are pleased to report that we have now arranged to send an assortment of games and music to the camps at St. Denis, Drancy . and Vittel. . . .” All members of the Committee for British Subjects Evacuated from France give their services free.