TREATED LIGHTLY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1943, Page 3

TREATED LIGHTLY

GERMAN MANACLING OF PRISONERS, i LETTERS FROM NEW ZEALAND SOLDIERS. ■ The first intimation that New Zealand prisoners of war were included among British troops handcuffed bv the permans comes from Captain W. E. Moore, son of Mrs E. M. Mo'ore, Palmerston North. In a • letter home he states: —“Germany, October 19, 1942: I am writing this with handcuffs on—• a little inconvenient but not so bad really . Am in the pink of health and best of spirits There are 12 New Zealanders among the chosen few. Quite an honour really and we feel very select! We have had the first touch of winter the last day or two but we should be able to keep quite warm in our present buildings.” Another prisoner, Captain S. T. Nolan, Hamilton, part of whose letter was blacked out, wrote to Mrs Nolan from Oflag VIIB as follows: —“There has been some mild excitement in the camp in the last few days. Quite a large number of us have been handcuffed or bound up, but so far it has been treated with humour. We have nothing to complain about the way the Germans are carrying out this order.”