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REPATRIATED AUSTRALIANS LIVES SAVED BY FOOD PARCELS. THOUSANDS OF RUSSIANS STARVED BY NAZIS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. A contingent of 185 repatriated A.I.F. prisoners of war has arrived at an Australian port by hospital ship. The men were 53 days on the journey from the time they left their German prison camp until they arrived in Australia. Most of them were captured in the Greece and Crete campaigns of early 1941. All are either medically unfit or are protected personnel. The returned prisoners said they owed their lives to the Red Cross parcels of food and clothing. They saw 3500 Russians die in one camp in less than three months from ill-treatment, hunger and disease
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 4
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