BEING DISTRIBUTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 March 1943, Page 3

BEING DISTRIBUTED

LETTERS TO WAR PRISONERS IN JAPAN INTERNATIONAL RED CROSS REPORT. SUPPLY OF RAZOR BLADES FOR NEW ZEALANDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The International Red Cross has advised the New Zealand Prisoners of War Inquiry Office that the Japanese authorities are proceedingswith the distribution of mail received from abroad for prisoners ■in their hands, now that camps in the Far East are reasonably established. The Japanese Bureau has advised that* 230,000 letters received by then up to the end of last year have been distributed as follows: Malaya, 180,000; Java, 10,000; Shanghai, 70,500; Hong Kong, 21,500; China, 600; Philippines. 5,400; Burma, 8,100; Zentsuji, 4,50-; Japan, excluding Zentsuji, 800; others, 200. (The figures are given as received, but these details total 301,600). An International Red Cross delegate has visited filing and sorting offices where approximately 150,000 letters are being sorted by 40 whole-time workers. Cabled advice has been received that 17 cases of safety razor blades, despatched through the High Commissioner’s Office, have been received and distributed by the International Red Cross tb prison camps where New Zealanders are located. The office notifies that incoming correspondence bear ordinary postage.