BAD CONDITION
IN ITALIAN PRISON CAMPS. REPORTED BY NEW ZEALANDERS. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, July 8. Three members of the New Zealand Army Medical Corps, recently repatriated to Australia from Italian prisoner of war camps, have told of under-nour-ishment, exposure and severe punishments for trivial offences. One medical officer calculated that the Italian rations provided about onequarter of the required calories for a soldier. At a camp in northern Italy, the New Zealanders found 800 Australians taken prisoner in the first Libyan campaign. “The Australians kept us going with the contents of their Red Cross parcels till our own began to arrive,” they said.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1942, Page 3
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104BAD CONDITION Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1942, Page 3
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