Still in Tatura

WRITING from Tatura at the end of April, Mr. O. Soltwedel (formerly of Wan, New Guinea), reported that he was “still on the wrong side of the fence.” He said that other New Guinea men still held there included Messrs. Paatsch, Werner, R. Macco, P.

Nechtritz, Gruesser, and Melcher. All of them hoped to be repatriated to New Guinea, if possible.

The “PIM” and others thereupon made further inquiry, to ascertain why these men are held in the prison camp one year after the capitulation of Germany. But the Australian authorities maintain a Gestapo-like silence.