WAR PRISONERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1943, Page 3

WAR PRISONERS

REPORTS ON ITALIAN CAMPS SOME NEW & WELL-EQUIPPED ESTABLISHMENTS. ARRIVAL OF PARCELS & MAILS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, September 4. The Prisoners of War Inquiry Office has received advice that the Italian prison camps PG 107, 120 and 148 are all work camps, formed from PG 57, which would seem to indicate that they are all in the neighbourhood of Udine. It is now known that PG 47 is situated near Modena, not Piacenza. Modena is just north of Bologna. A report on PG 47, which was visited by an International Red Cross representative in March this year, said the camp was establshed in small newly-constructed buildings. In the centre is space enough for a playing ground and another large space is used as a garden. Walks outside the camp are organised. Just over a thousand officers and men are detained, filling the camp to capacity. ■Showers, baths, washing and toilet facilities are described as built entirely of -marble, with separate cubicles. Hot showers are available twice a week. Each man has three blankets. PG 107. also visited in March, houses approximately a thousand men. New huts have just been completed. One was fitted out for tailors and bootmakers and for use as a storeroom for parcels, which, together with mails, were being received regularly. Clothing conditions . were stated to be satisfactory. Shower huts had been completed. British orderlies take care of the sick. Copies of recent letters from Stalag IX C are requested by the headquarters office.