WAR PRISONERS
IMPROVED TREATMENT IN GERMANY REPORT BY PROTECTING POWER. FURTHER CHANGES SOUGHT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY. March 3. There are now no more fleas and rats in the German Prison Camp Oflag ,68, and conditions generally are said to be better, according to a telegraphic report from the Protecting Power. The War Office, announcing this, adds that the Protecting Power has made representations to the German Government on features still unsatisfactory. A visit is believed to have taken place towards the end of January. The camp now contains 2,276 officers and 440 orderlies, while 201 senior officers have been transferred to Oflag 9A. Housing has been improved and beds have been disinfected. Each prisoner has two blankets and the camp is belter heated. Messing arrangements are now stated to be adequate. A further telegram from the Protecting Power states that the camp was visited on February 10. Details of the visit have not yet been reported. Three hundred R.A.F. personnel were to be transferred in February to two new camps, the names of which are not yet known. The officers transferred to Oflag 9A were to be visited on March 1.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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196WAR PRISONERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 4
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