WAR PRISONERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 January 1943, Page 3

WAR PRISONERS

PARCELS SERVICE KEPT GOING DURING PERIOD OF SHIPPING INTERRUPTION. INQUIRY OFFICE REPORT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON .This Day. Cablegrams from the British Red Cross are reassuring in regard to the supply of food and other parcels to prisoners of war, states the Inquiry Office, Wellington. Reserve stocks at Geneva have enabled the International Red Cross to donltinue the despatch of food parcels throughout the period in which steamer services were interrupted owing to the North African campaign. Some Swedish and Danish ships have continued their sailing since early November and Portuguese ships are recommencing. The British Red Cross also advised that the normal Red Cross steamer service from Lisbon to Marseilles was to be resumed; it could be anticipated towards the end of last month. Another cablegram states that as there appeal's to be a tendency to tighten up restrictions on clothing in many camps in Germany and Italy, next of kin are advised to send woollen clothing and comforts in service colours only; otherwise the garments may be confiscated by the camp authorities. Advice has been received that Oflag 3C is a new camp established recently for N.C.O’s. It is at Lubben, on the River Spree, almost due north of Dresden. The Inquiry Office has received a number of acknowledgment cards of next of kin parcels. An interesting point is that where prisoners have been transferred, parcels have been forwarded on. The acknowledgments are mostly from PG 66 and PG 52. A majority were received about the end of