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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1942, Page 4

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BRITISH AND AMERICAN ' WOMEN NUMBERS IN CONCENTRATION CAMP. KEPT ALIVE BY RED CROSS PARCELS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 1. Miss Ruth Mitchell, who has arrived in America and who joined the Yugo-slav-Chetnik guerilla army in April, 1941, later was arrested by the Gestapo and .'after this spent nearly a year in twelve different concentration camps. She said bombing is the way to beat Germany, because they cannot take it. The Chetniks are fighting magnificently in the Yugoslav mountains, keeping five divisions of Germans engaged. The German concentration, camps, she added, were filthy. She had been treated like a criminal. Men in the camps were chained up. In the Liebenau Concentration Camp there 360 British and 56 American women prisoners. Miss Mitchell brought back a basket made of string by British women prisoners, who presented it to President Roosevelt. She said the Red Cross parcels saved their lives, as it was doubtful whether they could have lived without them.