EXCHANGE PRISONERS
INCLUDING NEW ZEALANDERS ARRIVAL AT ALEXANDRIA SOME BADLY WOUNDED MEN (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. Prisoners of war —protected personnel and wounded soldiers from Germany numbering in all 1050 —arrived in Alexandria on Thursday morning in two ships, after being exchanged at Barcelona for Germans, states a correspondent in the Middle East. The hospital ship Tairea brought 518 Australians, New Zealanders and Indians, the Indians including 44 stretcher cases and 64 who contracted tuberculosis in German prison camps.
A Reuter correspondent reports that 58 stretcher cases aboard one ship left for Cairo by train. The wounded included many with a leg, arm or eye missing.
The British Red Cross presented every man with a parcel of sweets, cigarettes, a bottle of beer, a newspaper and a magazine. One Australian who passed through Frankfurt en route to Barcelona described the city as “the biggest mess I have ever seen.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 4
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