BRITISH PRISONERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 4

BRITISH PRISONERS

SOME RELEASED FROM IRONS IN GERMANY STORY TOLD IN LETTERS. MEN FROM DIEPPE PICKED OUT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 10. Relatives or war prisoners in Germany are now receiving the first letters revealing the release of some prisoners from fetters, says the “DaDily Express.” Some British officers taken prisoner at Dunkirk and Calais and men captured at Dieppe lived for nearly a month handcuffed in a loft near their prison, camp. They have now been freed.

Letters relate that when the handcuffing began, the “fall in” was sounded at one camp before breakfast. Men paraded in their shirt sleeves and others half dressed. All the men taken prisoner at Dieppe were ordered to fall out and were taken off in lorries. Men taken prisoner in other places were removed next morning. The loft, which was cold, had straw strewn on the floor. Some of the men took games and playing cards. Some of the letters said: “Don’t worry. It is not bad . We spend much time laughing at each other.”